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by lewis500
2772 days ago
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I keep trying to get my semi-retired parents to change their lifestyle, but unfortunately they keep getting blood tests which say their cholesterol and blood pressure and such are perfect. It is all the more frustrating because my dad smoked for about thirty-five years, and according to his veins it's as though he never smoked at all. I am thinking of asking the doctor if he can fudge the results. In all seriousness, it's probably genes, but I've also started to suspect it's due to coffee. They each drink about twelve cups of coffee per day. In the past few years, there have been more and more studies suggesting coffee is surprisingly good for you. Another advantage is that they both worked for themselves; they never had bosses making them do excruciatingly stupid things for years on end. |
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So, you'd rather they got worse results?
>It is all the more frustrating because my dad smoked for about thirty-five years, and according to his veins it's as though he never smoked at all. I am thinking of asking the doctor if he can fudge the results. In all seriousness, it's probably genes, but I've also started to suspect it's due to coffee. They each drink about twelve cups of coffee per day. In the past few years, there have been more and more studies suggesting coffee is surprisingly good for you.
Sounds very unlikely, and there really haven't been "more and more studies suggesting coffee is surprisingly good for you". At best a few ho-hum studies recycled by countless news outlets and websites. Coffee is not so miracle food (actually there are no such "superfoods"), and tons of people have smoked AND drank lots of coffee and still had bad health.
That said, some of the longer living populations in the Blue Zones smoke just fine and had for all their lives -- stress free, better foods, and regular walking is more important.
E.g. according to this a sedentary lifestyle is worse than smoking + diabetes + heart disease for your survival stats:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/19/health/study-not-exercisi...