May 16/Rockville, Md./Reuters -- In a new study of 400,000 older Americans, those who reported drinking a few daily cups of coffee were less likely to die over the next 14 years than were those who abstained from the beverage or rarely drank it.
However, that finding should be interpreted with caution, researchers said, because coffee habits were only measured at one point in time -- and it is unclear what ingredients in java, exactly, could be tied to a longer life.