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The potential benefit from coffee might be from the polyphenols, which are plant compounds that have antioxidant properties, according to Dr. Giuseppe Grosso, an assistant professor in human nutrition at University of Catania in Italy and the lead author of an umbrella review in the Annual Review of Nutrition.
Well, since I’m looking to get into the coffee field (as hopefully a taster or something similar), maybe I’ll live forever. 
But seriously, they’re spot on about having as little cream or sugar as you can possibly tolerate, so try to either make your own coffee or find a place that doesn’t produce burnt roasts that you have to doctor to make drinkable. A small cup of black coffee has about 5 calories.
