An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BIOCHEMISTRY
biochemistry
(noun) the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
biochemistry (countable and uncountable, plural biochemistries)
(uncountable) The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism
(countable) The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism
(countable) The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition
Source: Wiktionary
Bi`o*chem"is*try, n. Etym: [Gr. life + E. chemistry.] (Biol.)
Definition: The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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