Gosh I hope this doesn't come off as too negative, but what is the point finding these 'links'?<p>Science is about trying to explain the world, not looking for random facts.<p>We learn nothing of substance about coffee, health or anything else from this article. Yet it has the appearance of being scientific, for example, it mentions antioxidants.<p>It wouldn't be fair to label it <i>pseudoscience</i> however it does share some of the features.<p>People are starting to learn by now that correlation doesn't imply causation, but they still think it is suggestive of causation, or makes causation more probable, or something like that.<p>To try to dispel that: the fact that coffee drinking correlates positively with life expectancy is logically consistent with coffee acting to <i>reduce</i> lifespan. More importantly, knowing causes is not very helpful since pretty much everything causes pretty much everything else.<p>What is useful is solving problems and trying to explain the world. That's what people like Newton, Darwin and Einstein were doing.<p>FWIW my guess is that drinking coffee causes people to eat less food which might indeed result in greater health, though this doesn't seem like a fruitful line of enquiry.