date:May 23, 2012
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Neal Freedman and colleagues examined the association of coffee drinking with later total and cause-specific deaths among 400,000 people.
Freedman et al. noted that caffeine was generally regarded as unhealthy, but that antioxidants and other bioactive compounds, and other studies had shown inverse associations between coffee drinking and serum biomarkers of inflammation, as well as insulin resistance.
But the team noted that coffee had bee