Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, researchers at the National University of Singapore said they studied the coffee habits of 12,583 participants in a longitudinal study over 20 years, as they went from a median of 53 years old to 73.Nice to know I've got that going for me.
The fascinating and encouraging results they found: participants who drank copious amounts of coffee, which they defined as four or more cups per day, were twice as likely to avoid becoming physically frail as they aged into their 70s.
While the study specifically called out coffee, the researchers said people who drank caffeine-laden tea also saw benefits, and were also less likely to wind up with "diminished strength, endurance, and reduced physiologic function that increases an individual's vulnerability for developing increased dependency," as they aged, or dying early.
Of course, we have to keep in mind our old friend, "correlation vs. causation."
For example, it's possible that it's just a coincidence that big-time coffee drinkers had a better chance at a more robust later stage of life, or else that there's some other unidentified factor that leads to one or both of these factors.
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