I knew there had to be something good in all that coffee that I drink by the gallon.

Drinking buckets of coffee a day — up to six cups — may reduce your risk of death from heart disease, if ever so slightly, according to a new report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Or not.

Analyzing data culled from 84,214 women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study from 1980 to 2004 and 41,736 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1986 to 2004, researchers found that:

• Women who consumed two to three cups of caffeinated coffee a day had a 25% lower risk of death from heart disease.
• Women who consumed two to three cups of caffeinated coffee a day had an 18% lower risk of death caused by something other than heart disease or cancer.
• Men who consumed two to three cups of caffeinated coffee a day had no change in risk.

Moral of the story is that coffee is a great thing, something we insomniacs have known for years.