4 Cups of Coffee a Day Can Be Deadly
Young people who drink 28 cups of coffee or more a week are at a 50 percent increased risk of dying, according to a new study.
THURSDAY, August 15, 2013 — Many people need coffee in the morning to get through the day, but if you’re young, you may want to watch how much you drink, according to a new study in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina found that people under the age of 55 who
drink 4 or more cups of coffee every day faced a 50 percent higher mortality rate – and experts say that anyone drinking that much coffee needs to cut back.
Researchers looked at data on more than 43,000 people who answered survey questions on lifestyle habits and personal and family medical history between 1979 and 1998, and found that over the next 17 years, 2,512 people died. Young, heavy coffee drinkers were more likely to die than those who did not drink as much coffee, according to the study.