The Coffee Withdrawal Diagnosis

OK you guys, which is it, break the habit or possibly prevent disease (including cancer) and have a better memory.
I'm sticking with the strong black pot of caffeinated coffee I drink daily. I ruined enough memory cells with booze in my younger days so why not try to get extra caffeine help and, at the same time, possibly stave off some need to visit any doctors with the Feds looking over their shoulders. 

I wonder if there are any reputable studies on whether Christian Scientists outlive everyone else on the whole? m/r

The Coffee Withdrawal Diagnosis - WSJ.com

Quitting Caffeine Is Now Listed as a Mental-Health Disorder; The Best Ways to Break the Habit

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JUNE 6, 2013, 12:01 AM

This Is Your Brain on Coffee

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

This column appears in the June 9 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

For hundreds of years, coffee has been one of the two or three most popular beverages on earth. But it’s only recently that scientists are figuring out that the drink has notable health benefits. In one large-scale epidemiological study from last year, researchers primarily at the National Cancer Institute parsed health information from more than 400,000 volunteers, ages 50 to 71, who were free of major diseases at the study’s start in 1995. By 2008, more than 50,000 of the participants had died. But men who reported drinking two or three cups of coffee a day were 10 percent less likely to have died than those who didn’t drink coffee, while women drinking the same amount had 13 percent less risk of dying during the study. It’s not clear exactly what coffee had to do with their longevity, but the correlation is striking.

Other recent studies have linked moderate coffee drinking — the equivalent of three or four 5-ounce cups of coffee a day or a single venti-size Starbucks — with more specific advantages: a reduction in the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, basal cell carcinoma (the most common skin cancer), prostate cancer, oral cancer and breast cancer recurrence.

Perhaps most consequential, animal experiments show that caffeine may reshape the biochemical environment inside our brains in ways that could stave off dementia.