{"id":1399,"date":"2019-01-07T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:19:08","slug":"further-proof-there-is-a-god-alcohol-coffee-can-help-you-live-past-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Further proof there is a God: Alcohol &#038; coffee can help you live past 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3ac6b31200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope benedict beer\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3ac6b31200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3ac6b31200d-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Pope benedict beer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yup. Here you go.Obviously Pope Emeritus Benedict agrees &#8211; he&#39;ll be 92 in April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2018\/02\/22\/alcohol-near-me\/362510002\/\"> A study out of the University of California-Irvine has revealed that consumption of moderate amounts of alcohol and coffee is linked to living a longer life. Re-read that last sentence. The key word is &quot;moderate,&quot; of course. <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The study, <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mind.uci.edu\/research-studies\/90plus-study\/\">called &quot;The 90+ Study,&quot;<\/a> started in 2003 and examined &quot;the oldest-old&quot; age group \u2014&#0160;about 1,700 nonagenarians \u2014&#0160;to determine what is key to living to your 90th birthday and beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The study has found, among other things, that people &quot;who drank moderate amounts of alcohol or coffee lived longer than those who abstained,&quot; and that &quot;people who were overweight in their 70s lived longer than normal or underweight people did.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI have no explanation for it, but I do firmly believe that modest drinking improves longevity,\u201d&#0160;Dr. Claudia Kawas, a key researcher for the study, <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/alcohol-small-amounts-live-over-90-study-health-university-of-california-wine-beer-a8217521.html\">recently said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference <\/a>in Austin, according to the Independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The research found that subjects who drank two glasses of beer or wine every day decreased their chances at a premature death by 18%, and those who drank two cups of coffee a day decreased their chances by 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. Here you go.Obviously Pope Emeritus Benedict agrees &#8211; he&#39;ll be 92 in April. &#8230; A study out of the University of California-Irvine has revealed that consumption of moderate amounts of alcohol and coffee is linked to living a longer life. Re-read that last sentence. The key word is &quot;moderate,&quot; of course. The study, called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6720,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/6720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}