Is drinking coffee good for your health? The answer appears to be yes. Quite a lot of research shows that coffee drinkers stay mentally sharper and may live longer than those who don’t. That’s welcome ...

Drinking Coffee Can Add Years to Your Life, but Only If You Do This, Research Shows

The Conversation: Does coffee raise your blood pressure? Here’s how much it’s OK to drink

Does coffee raise your blood pressure? Here’s how much it’s OK to drink

Drinking coffee can be healthy. For example, studies find that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death from any cause compared to people who don't drink coffee. The benefits of coffee depend on things like how much you drink, your age, being biologically male or female, medicine you take, and even your genes.

Many of us are familiar with the main “pro” of coffee. The kick you get from your morning coffee is thanks to caffeine, a natural stimulant that can make you feel more energetic. While it can get a bad rap (if you overdo it), it turns out that the caffeine in coffee does more than just wake you up.

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially available. There are also various coffee substitutes. Coffee production begins when the seeds from coffee cherries (the Coffea plant's fruits) are separated to ...