[tomder55]

Good news ! You wake up in the morning and stagger to the kitchen .Grab a cup of freshly brewed coffee. Put a spoonful of sugar or 2 into the cup . Maybe add some milk or other creamer (I prefer black) . You can suck it down knowing that you have just prepared a healthy hot beverage that is extending your life ! Coffee is a health drink .

A new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine concludes that Moderate consumption of unsweetened and sugar-sweetened coffee was associated with lower risk for death.
Association of Sugar-Sweetened, Artificially Sweetened, and Unsweetened Coffee Consumption With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Large Prospective Cohort Study: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 (acpjournals.org)

The data is from a 170,000 person study by UK Biobank
UK Biobank - UK Biobank

Drinking 1.5 to 4.5 cups of unsweetened coffee resulted in 16-29% less likely to die during the study period than non-drinkers .
A 30% reduction rate is a huge deal .

Coffee Drinking Linked to Lower Mortality Risk, New Study Finds - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

If you are looking for possible reasons you could cite that coffee is chock full of the antioxidants called polyphenols. Maybe the caffeine contributes .

So suck it up buttercup ....for at least 2 years when the next study concludes that coffee consumption kills you.