Researchers have revealed through new study that drinking a cup of coffee daily could be the secret behind long life. The coffee helps improve elasticity of the arteries that can fend off heart disease. A distinctive study into what makes people to live up to hundred shows that even those with high blood pressure are recovered for a daily cup of coffee.
In a study survey that included the subjects aged between sixty-five and hundred and long term residents of Greek island of Ikaria. This land is known as land of longevity and a third person reach the age of ninety. These people suffer twenty percent less cancer and half the rate of heart disease as compared to western population.
The latest experts claim that Mediterranean diet supplemented with locally made honey and herbal teas that play key role. Researchers examined more than four hundred people with hypertension. By raising the load on the heart, high blood pressure results in rigidity of arteries and decreased elasticity that in order raises the chances of heart attack and stroke.
There was inconsistent proof about the effect of coffee drinking on heart health with several studies showing it provoked high blood pressure, explained the lead researcher Dr Christina Chrysohoou. But drinking coffee is a deeply rooted social tradition in Greek culture which made it essential to examine on this island of high life-expectancy, she added.
All subjected were evaluated for elasticity. It was found that fifty-six percent moderate drinkers of coffee who drink one and two cups a day had best arterial health and their blood vessels behave like young people. Moreover arteries of coffee drinkers were more elastic than others.