Column Chronicles: More coffee may mean more life

More coffee may mean more life

Frank Cotolo
June 9, 2016

How great would it be if you heard that drinking more coffee could mean you will live longer? If you don't drink coffee you would start drinking it and if you already drink it you would drink more.

Though the benefits of coffee have been controversial because its active ingredient, caffeine, is highly addictive, there is now evidence that coffee may add years to your life and the lives of others who drink it.

"First," said researcher Norm DeNormand, "if you drink coffee before you do daily exercises you can burn fifteen percent more calories. If you drank coffee with a bacon-and-egg burrito before exercising, you would vomit."

Other researchers not associated with the work of DeNormand but aware he has a speaking disorder, have recently applauded coffee's contribution to eyesight.

Meghan Arrowsmith led a group of researchers from Vermont in a study of coffee that lasted eight years. "Coffee that lasted eight years does not taste good, nor does it do the body any good."

But during that time, another research group found that coffee contains a strong antioxidant that prevented renal degeneration in mice. "That translates to a human's eyesight becoming keener, sharper and stronger," said P. Mention Sumting from Beijing. "We hope that we may be able to extract a kidney from a mouse and rub it on a human's eye to take the place of contact lens."

Finally, some researchers are connecting coffee to reducing Type 2 Diabetes.

"One extra cup of coffee a day can reduce the risk of Type two Diabetes by eleven percent," said Mark Pendlesonic, who claims to have studied the history of coffee at Harvard. "The history of coffee at Harvard dates back to the beginning of Harvard," he said. "Harvard always offered coffee to students and those students were studied. When people drank an extra cup of coffee a day for four years, their diabetes risks dipped eleven percent."

Pendlesonic clarified the conditions by saying that the one-more-cup-a-day theory went for however many cups any person regularly drank. So, if a person normally drinks ten cups, they should drink eleven cups. If a person normally drinks 20 cups, they should drink 21 cups. If a person normally drinks 30 cups, they should drink 31 cups.

"And so on," said Pendlesonic.

More studies on the effects of coffee on the modern human are going on even as we speak. So is the act of drinking coffee and people who love coffee are applauding for the benefits it may yet reveal.

"Who knows," said a coffee drinker, "it may cure cancer or better, stop death all together."

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.