Drinking a cup of coffee, whether sweetened or unsweetened, is associated with reducing the risk of mortality, according to the paper “Association of Sugar-Sweetened, Artificially Sweetened, and Unsweetened Coffee Consumption, With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality,” published in Annals of Internal Medicine (pdf), by researchers from the Southern Medical University in China.
The research aimed to “evaluate the association of consumption of sugar-sweetened, artificially sweetened, and unsweetened coffee with all-cause and cause-specific mortality.”
The participants were from ages 37 to 73 without cardiovascular disease or cancer, with the mean age being 55.6.
The article Conclusion states, “moderate consumption of unsweetened and sugar-sweetened coffee was associated with lower risk for death.” Compared with non-consumers of coffee, those who drink three cups per day have the lowest mortality risk….