There is a drink that most of us enjoy at least once, but probably a couple of times, every day. Much has been written on the health of this drink, and not all of it has been positive.

Now, a new study shows that it can reduce your risk of dying from type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other ailments.

Academics from Harvard University’s school of public health have just revealed a link that will make coffee drinkers very happy.

People who drink a moderate amount of coffee, three to five eight-ounce cups per day, are eight to 15 percent less likely to die from type 2 diabetes, heart disease, neurological diseases (like Parkinson’s disease), and even suicide than those who drink either no coffee or large amounts of it.

This study was published in the journal Circulation in November 2015.

To reach this conclusion, they analyzed the information of three surveys that questioned more than 200,000 doctors and nurses on their eating and drinking habits. By the time they published this study, they had worked their way through the reports of 93,000 women and 45,000 men.

Interestingly, as far as they could tell, those who drank caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee had a similar chance of dying of these diseases, meaning that coffee does not exercise this mortality reduction effect through caffeine.

With reference to other literature, the authors hypothesized that coffee’s chlorogenic acid, lignans, quinides, trigonelline, and magnesium were probably responsible for reducing insulin resistance and systematic inflammation. Insulin resistance is a central characteristic of type 2 diabetes while inflammation contributes to diabetes and heart disease.

When they included other factors in their calculation, they found that the effect held even for alcohol drinkers and people with a high body-mass index, but not for smokers.

Non-smokers who drank between one and three cups a day were six to eight percent less likely of dying than non-coffee drinkers, and those who drank three to five cups were eight to 15 percent less likely to die. Those who drank five cups enjoyed the maximum benefit of 15 percent. Beyond five cups, the risk was the same as for non-coffee drinkers.

This is good news for people who struggle to get out of bed and work productively without their coffee, especially because some studies have found that, in the short term, caffeine reduced insulin sensitivity. This study offers some hope that the long-term consequences of regular coffee drinking are more positive.

This is not the first time scientists have given coffee drinkers some hope. In 2005, a study that followed 88,259 American women for eight years concluded that those who drank 3 cups of coffee per day were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who drank none or less than 3 cups. The conclusion held for both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee.

Therefore, it does not only reduce your risk of dying from diabetes, but also of developing it in the first place.

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