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.
MITIGATION
moderation, mitigation
(noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity; “the object being control or moderation of economic depressions”
extenuation, mitigation, palliation
(noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
extenuation, mitigation
(noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mitigation (countable and uncountable, plural mitigations)
A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
Source: Wiktionary
Mit`i*ga"tion, n. Etym: [OE. mitigacioun, F. mitigation, fr. L. mitigatio.]
Definition: The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
Syn.
– Alleviation; abatement; relief.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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