{"id":1060432,"date":"2012-05-18T01:12:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T01:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/uncategorized\/alexandra-petri-coffee-lies-and-immortality.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T23:58:20","slug":"alexandra-petri-coffee-lies-and-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/immortality\/alexandra-petri-coffee-lies-and-immortality.php","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Petri: Coffee, lies, and immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>        COFFEE IS GREAT IM A FAN OF COFFEE    HEY HOW ARE YA LOOKING GREAT I HAVE LOTS OF ENERGY HEY LETS GO    CONQUER SOMETHING LARGE LIKE MAYBE CANADA IT SEEMS MANAGEABLE    YOU NEVER HEAR OF PEOPLE TRYING TO INVADE CANADA AND FAILING AM    I RIGHT HEY GREAT SO GOOD SEEING YOU BOY THIS IS GREAT COFFEE    HUH (Erin Meister - ERIN MEISTER) Every few    months, like clockwork, scientists emerge from their lair to    inform us that something we have been doing for years will    either kill us or make us live forever.  <\/p>\n<p>    According to a recent study in the     New England Journal of Medicine, coffee extends your life.    Drink six or more cups per day, and you have a 10 percent lower    risk of death if youre a man  and     15 percent lower if youre a woman. Or so the study, based    on self-reported coffee consumption, claims.  <\/p>\n<p>    I love coffee. I drink so much that, if this study is to be    believed, I am functionally immortal.  <\/p>\n<p>    It is reassuring for once to hear that possibly, just possibly,    something you actually do is going to extend your life.    Usually longevity requires uncomfortable concessions like onion    sandwiches, push-ups or kale. And forget kale, as Cee Lo Green    would say.  <\/p>\n<p>    To get back my youth, Oscar Wilde wrote, I would do anything    in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be    respectable. Thats how I feel. But coffee I can do.  <\/p>\n<p>    Besides, if it werent for coffee, as someone wise once    quipped, Id have no personality whatsoever.  <\/p>\n<p>    Coffee is a civilized vice. As a society, we have agreed upon    certain mutually acceptable bad habits. To some extent, this is    a crapshoot. Here is a plant, we say, which, when treated    and consumed in a certain way, produces a certain stimulatory    or depressive effect on the system. Depending on the plant,    this is either completely illegal, illegal behind the wheel,    illegal in airports and discouraged around babies, or something    we are bringing by the gallon to morning meetings! Youre    welcome!  <\/p>\n<p>    If you are one of the fortunate plants, there are hip    establishments on corners with counters and tables and low    music playing, dedicated to your consumers. If you are not,    agents of the law will pursue you over hill and dale, and the    only people really enthusiastic about you will have ill-advised    beards, bad teeth, unsound political opinions, or the tendency    to blow over in high winds.  <\/p>\n<p>    But we were right about coffee! It even extends your life!    Possibly.  <\/p>\n<p>    The trouble is that most coffee drinkers do not drink it in    isolation while doing calisthenics and eating onion sandwiches.    Even the     study admitted as much. Coffee is the good habit of people    with bad habits.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/compost\/post\/coffee-lies-and-immortality\/2012\/05\/17\/gIQAWEdQWU_blog.html?wprss=rss_homepage\" title=\"Alexandra Petri: Coffee, lies, and immortality\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandra Petri: Coffee, lies, and immortality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> COFFEE IS GREAT IM A FAN OF COFFEE HEY HOW ARE YA LOOKING GREAT I HAVE LOTS OF ENERGY HEY LETS GO CONQUER SOMETHING LARGE LIKE MAYBE CANADA IT SEEMS MANAGEABLE YOU NEVER HEAR OF PEOPLE TRYING TO INVADE CANADA AND FAILING AM I RIGHT HEY GREAT SO GOOD SEEING YOU BOY THIS IS GREAT COFFEE HUH (Erin Meister - ERIN MEISTER) Every few months, like clockwork, scientists emerge from their lair to inform us that something we have been doing for years will either kill us or make us live forever. According to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, coffee extends your life. Drink six or more cups per day, and you have a 10 percent lower risk of death if youre a man and 15 percent lower if youre a woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/immortality\/alexandra-petri-coffee-lies-and-immortality.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[431589],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immortality"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}