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Those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee per day, even with a teaspoon of sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn’t drink coffee.

I wish coffee studies would report results in ounces (or better, ml) instead of ambiguous "cups"

The Coffee industry uses 6 ounce cups, the USA standard "cup" is 8 ounces, and the imperial cup is 10 ounces (the study was based on UK data).

I drink around 12 oz of coffee a day and I drink it out of a single large coffee cup, is that 1 cup, 2 cups, 1.5 cups, or 1.2 cups?




A lot of the world drinks espresso. Mg of caffeine probably the appropriate measure here?


It is a study on self reported data. They won't know how strong the coffee was, or even the size of the cup. Or if the teaspoons of sugar were heaped or flat.


It is not, because the study also looked at decaffeinated coffee.




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