News Item -適量咖啡有益健康
Today we have more good news for all of our coffee drinkers around the world. Another new study finds that drinking coffee can help you live longer.
今天，我們?yōu)槭澜绺鞯氐目Х蕊嬘谜邘砹烁嗪孟?。另一項新的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，喝咖啡有助于延年益壽。
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health recently discovered that drinking between three and five cups of coffee a day may prevent certain illnesses. They found that coffee can protect against heart disease, brain diseases, Type II diabetes and suicide.
哈佛大學(xué)公共衛(wèi)生學(xué)院的研究人員最近發(fā)現(xiàn)，每天喝三到五杯咖啡可以預(yù)防某些疾病。他們發(fā)現(xiàn)，咖啡可以預(yù)防心臟病、腦部疾病、II 型糖尿病和自殺。
Walter Willett is a nutrition researcher at Harvard and co-author of the study. Willet says the findings extend to both caffeinated(含咖啡因的)and decaffeinated coffee—or decaf, as Americans often call it.
沃爾特-威利特是哈佛大學(xué)的營養(yǎng)研究員，也是這項研究的共同作者。威利特說，研究結(jié)果既適用于含咖啡因的咖啡，也適用于無咖啡因的咖啡，即美國人常說的低咖啡因咖啡。
So, the health benefits come not just from the caffeine in coffee, but from the compounds in the beans.
因此，對健康的益處不僅來自咖啡中的咖啡因，還來自咖啡豆中的化合物。
The large study of about 200,000 subjects included data from three ongoing studies. Subjects in the study had to answer questions about their coffee drinking habits every four years over a 30-year period.
這項針對約 20 萬名受試者的大型研究包含了三項正在進(jìn)行的研究的數(shù)據(jù)。在長達(dá) 30 年的時間里，研究對象必須每四年回答一次有關(guān)他們喝咖啡習(xí)慣的問題。
Researchers found that moderate coffee drinking was linked with a reduced risk of death from many diseases. These diseases include cardiovascular(心血管)disease, diabetes, neurological(神經(jīng)方面的)diseases such as Parkinson’s, and suicide.
研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，適量飲用咖啡與降低多種疾病的死亡風(fēng)險有關(guān)。這些疾病包括心血管疾病、糖尿病、神經(jīng)方面的疾病（如帕金森?。┖妥詺ⅰ?br />
However, the researchers found no link between coffee drinking and cancer.
不過，研究人員沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)喝咖啡與癌癥之間有任何聯(lián)系。
