(Liberty Nation)—As Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, sweeps the nation, people seem even more conscious about what they eat. The trick, however, is finding healthy foods and trying to sort through and make sense of the ingredients. A new study suggests that drinking coffee daily is linked to healthier aging. Let’s dive deeper into this and other studies and explore the benefits of coffee in High on Health With Kelli Ballard.
Is drinking a cup of hot coffee part of your morning ritual? If so, there’s some good news. According to a new study, presented recently at an annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Orlando, drinking coffee may help you age better. The study has not been peer-reviewed or published; however, it involved monitoring more than 47,000 female nurses for three decades.
Every few years, the women would check in to answer a few questions about their health and diets, including how much coffee, tea, and soda they usually consumed. In 2016, the scientists looked at how many were still alive and aging healthily. Most were in their 70s or older by that time. Of the original number, just over 3,700 of the participants met the study’s criteria, which included remaining in good health and being free of a variety of chronic diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, among others.
After factoring in other health concerns, such as diet, exercise, and whether they smoked, the study found that the “women who met researchers’ criteria for ‘healthy aging’ typically consumed an average of 315 mg of caffeine per day when they were between the ages of 45 and 60, mostly from drinking coffee,” explained Time. “And for the women in that group of ‘healthy agers,’ each extra cup of coffee per day was associated with a 2-5% higher chance of faring well as they aged, up to five small cups per day.”
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