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Consuming fruit and a cup of coffee a day can halve risk of unhealthy cell ageing, study suggests
(www.theguardian.com)
How about substituting fruit with a cigarette?
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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I think that's called a Continental Breakfast.
Don't mind if I do
It’s good, it’s bad, it’s good, it’s bad, it’s…
Fuck it, life is better with coffee, and fruit.
Nothing is 100% good or 100% bad. Even oxygen has problems that are caused in the body.
Coffee, like many things, can cause some health issues, but also some health benefits.
The problem is that the headlines only talk about this specific effect studied. When you get down the details, it's a lot less clear cut then "drink coffee = live longer" or "drink coffee = die younger"
This is why I hate science reporting in the media.
life is better with coffee
enjoy while you can, because climate change is ruining this too
it blows my mind how many people don't eat any fruit or veg at all.
Veg, yes, but what does fruit really give you except fiber and glucose?
Fiber is already more than enough reason to eat fruit, why are you searching for more?
Fiber isn't something the body can break down, so what are you getting from it?
- antioxidants
- vitamins
- minerals
- enzymes
Alright but apart from the sugar and the fiber and the antioxidants and the vitamins and the minerals and the enzymes, what has fruit ever done for us?
Peace?
- sexual aid
- booze
- theatre criticism
More than what's in meat and vegetables? 🤔
It's there any fruit with more vitamins and such things than you can find in a corresponding vegetable or meat?
Complex answers there due to bioavailability, combinations, and palatability. Cow liver has lots of vitamin A but it is liver. Carrots have a lot of A if you eat good fats with them. Sea Buckthorn has more than you need but you also get v.C and lots of other nutrients and it's a candy.
Also as primates we are built for fruit.
Complex indeed.
Could you explain a bit more about what being "built for fruit" means? Built more for fruit than other things or just built to "handle" it?
Well it’s just a major part of many primate species’ diets, including hominids. Your mileage may vary depending on gut flora etc but humans eat a lot of fruits in general.
Just because we do as humans doesn't mean it's the most nutritious. Look at the diet of koalas for example.
"Nutrition" comes in many forms; I am fine with high density antioxidants and vitamins (more dense in some fruits than most if not all veg and meat) that are candy.
You have a strange opposition to fruit. Go prove that people can have a healthy diet without fruit and come back with the evidence.
You have a strange opposition to fruit. Go prove that people can have a healthy diet without fruit and come back with the evidence.
LCHF. My mother's been on it for over a decade, never felt better, she says. Lots of ailments she had went away as well.
I'm not opposed to fruit, there's stuff in fruit we need. I'm just saying they're probably not the best source of those things because it comes with the cost of extra stuff we don't need, like sugars and fiber.
You can probably get more of those antioxidants and vitamins in berries rather than fruit, going by the colloquial definition of "fruit".
I'm also not in LCHF, but I never eat fruit and I'm healthy af. Only on special occasions, like maybe a melon, or a mango or something. Never regularly.
I have a slight iron deficiency but that's from birth and fruit won't help me there, I imagine.
Not including berries in "fruit" is weird AF.
Saying we don't need fibre is just deeply misinformed.
Anecdotal evidence, universalized, is often just rationalization. I believe you about your experience. I don’t think you can generalize accurately withit.
Not including berries in "fruit" is weird AF.
I said in the traditional definition. Fruit includes berries as well in the scientific definition, yes.
Was everyone using the scientific definition all along? Kind of unusual but I'll take it.
Anecdotal evidence
Excuse me but it doesn't matter in this case based on what you asked me.
You asked, that I prove that people can have a healthy diet without fruit, which would imply that your hypothesis is that you can't. So I give you two examples that disprove the hypothesis, and you reject them? That's not the scientific method, sir.
All that aside, I'm glad you believe me, because I have no reason to lie of course.
Vegetables are essential, and I eat those. Had I not eaten them, I think we wouldn't be having this discussion. 😅 I'd be eating a lot of supplements or be dead or dying.
Yummy
Based on my fruit and coffintake, I’m living forever. Ignore the alcohol.
I don't know if that's a typo or not. But I like it.
10 bucks says the studies were paid for by coffee and fruit industries.
They were funded by one and found success in another.
They would have made sense if one worked and they were funded by the same industry
Would have made sense if they simply found success in their results and published them
They said that it works when combining coffee and fruit. Which one paid for it? Both would have told the other industry to pay for the study. It's definitely only coffee or "fruit".
One was actually meaningful. Guessing fruit was actually beneficial and coffee paid the bill but it's definitely a red flag to include both in the finding. Either coffee is good and fruit is meaningless, or the other way around.
Tbh, "fruit" is such a large category that there's no way they studied every fruit. They "studied coffee" and added "fruit" so they could post a benefit. I love coffee but this study is bullshit.
I drink coffee and eat fruit every morning. I’ll let yall know if I die early on account of it!
Halve, not have
Must be the coffee and fruit shutting my brain down already. I didn’t even catch that.
The funny thing is that in French, those 2 words are spelled and said exactly the same way.
gotta add 2 shots of whiskey and 3 cigs to complete that breakfast.
Too bad coffee tastes like trash to this guy.
Guess I'll die.
I do often eat some fruit, though.
I'd rather take years off my life than having to suffer every day by drinking coffee.
Yep, you'll die if you're not addicted to caffeine
You could probably sub in chocolate for a similar benefit.
Can anyone find the study?
It seems this story is based on an unpublished paper abstract presented at European Congress on Obesity 2026 titled "Higher Dietary Polyphenol Intake Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Short Telomeres: Evidence from the SUN Cohort Study".
You can see it in the conference program.
https://eco2026.org/assets/docs/programme-book.pdf
And here is another reference.
As far as I can tell it's not yet published. Why on earth would this be reported if it hasn't made it through the publishing process? Lol
Here is a reaction to the findings that were presented at the conference mentioned in the op article.
because it makes for good click bait
What about a strawberry flavored monster??? Is that the same or...?
What about 2-3 STOK Cappuccino 48oz bottles a day, and a Bang to help me calm down after?
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