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Drinking coffee basically keeps you alive

By Christina Earle, The Sun

April 28, 2017 | 12:22pm | Updated

Three strong cups of coffee a day slashes the risk of prostate cancer by half, a study revealed this week.

And that’s only one of its benefits.

Prevents high cholesterol
* * * slash the risk of stroke by up to 25 percent.
* * *cuts the risk of heart disease,
* * * makes you feel more alert
* * *slashes the chance of developing Alzheimer’s by 20 percent.
Reduces risk of dying
* * *reduces the risk of developing neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s.
* * * faster recovery from operations and wounds.
* * * recover from bowel operations faster.
* * * breaks down bacteria which causes plaque.
* * * cuts the risk of Type 2 diabetes

Medical studies are almost always bogus

By Susannah Cahalan

May 6, 2017 | 1:04pm

How many times have you encountered a study — on, say, weight loss — that trumpeted one fad, only to see another study discrediting it a week later?

That’s because many medical studies are junk. It’s an open secret in the research community, and it even has a name: “the reproducibility crisis.”

For any study to have legitimacy, it must be replicated, yet only half of medical studies celebrated in newspapers hold water under serious follow-up scrutiny — and about two-thirds of the “sexiest” cutting-edge reports, including the discovery of new genes linked to obesity or mental illness, are later “disconfirmed.”

Reduces risk of dying