IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Drink coffee, live longer. “After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn’t matter. The study of 400,000 people is the largest ever done on the issue, and the results should reassure any coffee lovers who think it’s a guilty pleasure that may do harm. . . . Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart or respiratory disease, stroke, diabetes, injuries, accidents or infections. No effect was seen on cancer death risk, though. Other research ties coffee drinking to lower levels of markers for inflammation and insulin resistance.”

Note: A 600-calorie mochalatte may not have the same effect. . . .