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.
EXERTION
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
(noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work; “he got an A for effort”; “they managed only with great exertion”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
exertion (countable and uncountable, plural exertions)
An expenditure of physical or mental effort.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*er"tion, n.
Definition: The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.
Syn.
– Attempt; endeavor; effort; essay; trial. See Attempt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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