Many of us are looking for the secret to long life, aren’t we?

The health industry and the beauty industry give us many a suggestion   from the more traditional exercise and nutritional diet, to slightly more unorthodox fads.

But one study has been revealed recently, which suggests that coffee drinking could be the answer.

Interested?

Read on.

Nearly 500,000 people have been studied recently and it seems that those who drank three cups of the caffeine elixir each day could live longer.

In addition, the more caffeine in the drink, it seems the chances of dying from certain health conditions (such as strokes, diabetes, respiratory diseases, heart disease) are reduced.

However, this is not a carte blanche to drink caffeine to excess.

But the study suggested that those who drank over six cups of coffee daily had a 10-15% chance of a longer life.

The spokesperson from the National Cancer Institute in the United States said that the ‘association’ between a longer life and coffee consumption was ‘modest’ but there was, nonetheless, an inverse association between coffee drinking and overall risk of death.

This trend applied provided the participants did not drink a lot of alcohol or smoke.

There is now a call for research to work out what it is in caffeine that could keep certain illnesses and ailments at bay.

The research project, which revealed these results, followed participants aged between 50 and 71 for over a decade (around 12 years).