New data suggest that the health benefits of coffee persist even when a bit of sugar is added.
The research shows that people who drank any amount of unsweetened coffee are 16 percent to 21 percent less likely to die than those who don’t drink it, based on data from 171,000 British participants.
Sweetened coffee drinkers who had an average of 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 cups per day were 21 percent to 29 percent less likely to die during a seven-year follow-up period than non-coffee drinkers.
But this doesn’t mean that you should head for a syrupy sugar-bomb of a coffee. The people who benefited tended to add just a little bit of sugar to their coffee….