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Killer coffee
By Jenny Hope
More than four cups a day 'raises premature death chance in younger people'claim experts
View(s): Drinking four cups a day could raise your risk of dying young, researchers warn – but only if you’re under 55. They found that consuming 28 cups of coffee a week increases the chances of premature death in younger people by half. The findings come from a large- scale American lifestyle study of 43,727 individuals aged 20 to 87.
The US researchers suspect excessive coffee consumption may adversely affect the body’s metabolism, outweighing some of the known health benefits. Around 2,500 deaths were recorded over the course of the 16-year study. Just under a third of these were because of heart and artery disease.
Participants who drank more coffee were also more likely to smoke, and had less healthy hearts and lungs.
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