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Daily fix: a cup of coffee a day keeps the doctor away

A study shows coffee drinking lowers risk of death, and green tea is even more effective at reducing mortality

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
07 February 2021 - 18:59 By claire keeton

It’s Monday morning and here’s yet another reason to drink coffee.

Drinking coffee every day reduces the risk of death among stroke and heart attack survivors by 22%, and by 14% among healthy older people, an observational study published in the journal Stroke (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.032273) this month found...

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