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.
RATABLY
RATABLE
Rat"a*ble, a.
1. Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value. Twenty oræ were ratable to [at] two marks of silver. Camden.
2. Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.
3. Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.
– Rat"a*ble*ness, n.
– Rat"a*bly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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