Well then cheers! According to the study, alcohol, coffee, and being overweight could extend your life

Well then cheers!
According to the study, alcohol, coffee and being overweight could prolong your life

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Good news for everyone who likes to slip behind the curtain, love coffee or carry around a few pounds: this is exactly how you can live to be 100 years old.

by Viola Kaiser

This is research to our liking: For a study over many years since 2003, California researchers asked almost 1,600 people over the age of 90 what they did to get as old as they are. They had to do different medical tests every six months. The scientists came to these very positive findings:

1. People who drink moderate amounts of coffee and alcohol tend to live longer than abstainers.

Yeah Excellent reason to end the "Dry January" straight away and also have your third coffee. And what does moderate mean again?

2. People who are more likely to be overweight from the age of 70 live longer than those who are normal or underweight.

This is also news that is not entirely new, but is always nice to hear. Apart from the fact that diets are totally unhealthy and eating simply makes you happy.

There is of course a BUT, because as always, the dose makes the poison. So (unfortunately) it is not a matter of killing ourselves completely every day, to have 20 coffee and 40 kilos too much, but simply that such a glass and a piece of cake on plus two cups of cappuccino on Sunday is life do better and so probably longer. At least that's the interpretation here.

A long life without cake, sparkling wine and latte macchiato is definitely not an option anyway. And there are some well-known people who have proven that a sip here and there can age neatly. Queen Mum, for example, drank her gin every day and turned 101, while the US veteran Richard Overton, who was honored by Barack Obama, now famous and unfortunately also deceased, turned 112 – and he drank large quantities of whiskey a day. Incidentally, the author of this article's grandmother was clearly overweight, drank about eight cups of coffee a day, and died at 98. If that isn't proof …