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.
MELANCHOLIA
melancholia
(noun) extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)
Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.
Synonyms: gloom, melancholy, sadness
(pathology) Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy.
Source: Wiktionary
Mel`an*cho"li*a, n. Etym: [L. See Melancholy.] (Med.)
Definition: A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CHOKER
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