Coffee may help you live longer – Study
Drinking
coffee and tea may help people to live longer by reducing chemicals in the
blood that can trigger heart disease, researchers have found. Now researchers
at Stanford University believe they may have hit on a reason why
having a coffee or tea break is so good for us.
Caffeine,
the ingredient that gives coffee, tea and some fizzy drinks a lift, blocks
chemicals in our blood that promote inflammation. Inflamed blood vessels are
more likely to become stiffer - a risk factor for heart disease. Inflammation
also plays a key role in many other diseases, the research study said.
Tests on the
blood of people fewer of the chemicals linked to inflammation - were found to
have more caffeine in their bloodstream. Further investigation revealed that
they, as might be expected, drank more coffee than their peers.
A chemical
found in chocolate, theobromine, was also found to have an anti-inflammatory
effect, although not as pronounced as caffeine.
David Furman
of the Stanford University's Institute for Immunity, Transplantaion and
Infection said:
'More than
90 per cent of all noncommunicable diseases of aging are associated with
chronic inflammation.' Dr Furmann added: 'It's also well known that caffeine
intake is associated with longevity. Many studies have shown this association.
We've found a possible reason for why this may be so.'
His
colleague Mark Davis added: 'Our findings show that an underlying inflammatory
process, which is associated with aging, is not only driving cardiovascular
disease but is, in turn, driven by molecular events that we may be able to
target and combat.'
19.01.2017
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