News Item -适量咖啡有益健康

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，我们为世界各地的咖啡饮用者带来了更多好消息。另一项新的研究发现，喝咖啡有助于延年益寿。

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.
哈佛大学公共卫生学院的研究人员最近发现，每天喝三到五杯咖啡可以预防某些疾病。他们发现，咖啡可以预防心脏病、脑部疾病、II 型糖尿病和自杀。

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.
沃尔特-威利特是哈佛大学的营养研究员，也是这项研究的共同作者。威利特说，研究结果既适用于含咖啡因的咖啡，也适用于无咖啡因的咖啡，即美国人常说的低咖啡因咖啡。

So, the health benefits come not just from the caffeine in coffee, but from the compounds in the beans.
因此，对健康的益处不仅来自咖啡中的咖啡因，还来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.
这项针对约 20 万名受试者的大型研究包含了三项正在进行的研究的数据。在长达 30 年的时间里，研究对象必须每四年回答一次有关他们喝咖啡习惯的问题。

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(神经方面的)diseases such as Parkinson’s, and suicide.
研究人员发现，适量饮用咖啡与降低多种疾病的死亡风险有关。这些疾病包括心血管疾病、糖尿病、神经方面的疾病（如帕金森病）和自杀。

However, the researchers found no link between coffee drinking and cancer.

不过，研究人员没有发现喝咖啡与癌症之间有任何联系。