Good news for coffee addicts who get conflicting news about their favorite beverage.

Coffee has more than 1,000 compounds and the effects of these compounds on human health have yet to be discovered.

Although it is not certain exactly why coffee benefits health there definitely seems to be some correlation.

Overall, in the U.S. about 64 percent of adults drink coffee daily, according to Joe DeRupo, spokesman for the National Coffee Association. At 3.2 cups a piece, that amounts to some 479 million cups a day, agency figures indicate.
Those coffee fans can take the new results seriously. The mortality reduction is modest but solid, said Freedman, whose study offered the size and power to document associations other researchers had only suspected.
He and his team in NIC’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics reviewed the coffee habits of more than 402,000 people followed between 1995 and 2008, including more than 52,000 who died.

Is there such a thing as too much coffee?

Say it isn’t so!

Some of us rely on coffee consumption to fuel our daily routine.

But is it possible to drink too much?

Scientists agree that “moderate” coffee consumption, defined as two to four brewed cups of a coffee a day, is not harmful in the long-term and likely will not produce any unwanted short-term side effects for a person who is not overly sensitive to the effects of caffeine.

Some research shows, however, that consuming more than four cups a day can raise the incidence of heart problems as well as increase the chances of calcium loss, which can lead to osteoporosis. This is in addition to the more familiar short-term consequences of caffeine overload: irritability, restlessness, nervousness and not blinking.