Engleski A - 2020. jesen, reading 5.

Now researchers say drinking coffee could extend your life as you are less (33)

to die from a number of different ailments. These include heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, diabetes and infections, (34)

not cancer.

Researchers say they cannot establish whether coffee is really the cause of a lowered risk of death, but they have found a link. The research followed a large number of people taking (35)

in a diet and health study.

Participants were classified into 3 groups (36)

to the amount of coffee they drank:

those drinking (37)

to six cups a day, those drinking more than six cups a day and non-coffee drinkers.

The research found an ‘inverse association’ between coffee consumption and death, (38)

means those drinking greater amounts of coffee had a reduced risk of dying.

Experts say it is not caffeine that gives health benefits, but (39)

are biological effects from antioxidants and magnesium contained in coffee.

Does all this mean that the (40)

coffee you drink, the longer you will live? Dr Euan Paul, executive director of the British Coffee Association, says “This research provides evidence that only moderate consumption of 4-5 cups of coffee per day is safe and may be associated with certain health benefits”.