I was able to finish reading the article before the page finished loading. To WebMD: Fix your ad networks and write better articles.

I suggest installing uBlock Origin and enabling the following filters:

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After that, blocking every resource except images in uMatrix results in a beautiful, HTML-only page featuring text and images for the article only, without headers, CSS, sidebars, and ads.

Autophagy is induced by coffee. Just learned that today!

“Coffee triggers 2 phenomena that are also induced by nutrient depletion, namely a reduction of protein acetylation coupled to an increase in autophagy. We speculate that polyphenols contained in coffee promote health by stimulating autophagy.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24769862/

Also watched this video from Found My Fitness[1] recommended in another HN post today [2]. It’s an interview with Dr Guido Kroemer. Very informative and research-based info about autophagy, mentions coffee as well as fasting.

[1] https://youtu.be/Gm626MgpveI

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831003

I wonder if the inverse correlation between type 2 diabetes and coffee is because coffee drinkers generally consume fewer sweets and have less of a sweet tooth?

I regret to inform you from personal experience that this is not the case.

> coffee drinkers generally consume fewer sweets and have less of a sweet tooth

Have you looked at the sugar content in a typical Starbucks drink? A lot of those contain 15 to 45 grams of sugar per cup.

Yes there are some people who make French press coffee and drink it with 0 sugar / cream but I'd say a lot of casual coffee drinkers aren't that health minded.

https://news.starbucks.com/uploads/documents/nutrition.pdf

I drink quite a bit of coffee, I use an aeropress and will sometimes add a little heavy cream but generally drink it without adding anything. I never add sugar.

Isn't coffee and doughnuts a very classic combo?

Perhaps.

Another one is coffee and cigarettes.

That could be that nicotine causes you to metabolize caffeine quicker.

I believe the coffee is prepared matters too.

Correlation does not imply causation...

It very much implies it. It just doesn't guarantee it.

Imply (verb): indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference.

See "material implication" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_conditional), which is what most people here will likely mean when they say "implies":

> The material conditional (also known as material implication, material consequence, or simply implication, implies, or conditional) is a logical connective (or a binary operator) that is often symbolized by a forward arrow "→". The material conditional is used to form statements of the form p → q (termed a conditional statement) which is read as "if p then q". Unlike the English construction "if... then...", the material conditional statement p → q does not specify a causal relationship between p and q. It is merely to be understood to mean "if p is true, then q is also true" such that the statement p → q is false only when p is true and q is false.[1]  The material conditional only states that q is true when (but not necessarily only when) p is true, and makes no claim that p causes q.