How about substituting fruit with a cigarette?
I think that’s called a Continental Breakfast.
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.
Aah fruit. My favourite fruit.
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?
Yummy
- 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?
- 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.
vitamins
If I eat 1 egg a day I get a substantial part of my daily intake of every vitamin except C, which I can then find rich in vegetables instead. Veggies have more vitamins than fruit, usually, as far as I understand. E.g. vitamin C, much higher content in broccoli than, say, an orange.
Similar thing with vitamin A. Everyone keeps yapping about carrots and veggies, when the best source of it is animal liver. Some animals like polar bears have so much vitamin A in their liver that you can easily overdose on it and die. It’s not even close.
Yep. We don’t really need fruit.
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
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.
Yeah I came here to say ‘study sponsored by Starbucks’
Which I’d bet 90% of the drinks they sell to people are less than a splash of coffee with 15 pumps of caramel and milk. It’s like a splash of coffee for color like coke in a Long Island Iced tea.
I always just used dark rum for that, back when I did the drinkin’
Too bad coffee tastes like trash to this guy.
Guess I’ll die.
I do often eat some fruit, though.
Yep, you’ll die if you’re not addicted to caffeine
I’d rather take years off my life than having to suffer every day by drinking coffee.
You could probably sub in chocolate for a similar benefit.
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. Now I gotta live longer accidentally doing the right thing!
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.
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?
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
But I drink black tea, n bunch of fruits.
Is green tea any good??
Pu Erh is probably the healthiest stimulant hot drink available. Green teas are a close second.
tea is fine.
@LustLive I have decaf tea and a decent amount of dextro amphetamine each day. Hoping that works too.
