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.
UPSHOTS
Noun
upshots
plural of upshot
Source: Wiktionary
UPSHOT
Up"shot`, n. Etym: [Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf. the phrase to cast up an account.]
Definition: Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation. I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Shak. We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.
UPSHOOT
Up*shoot", v. i.
Definition: To shoot upward. "Trees upshooting high." Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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