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Coffee Today Keeps Dementia Away
Time to drop the decaf for the real stuff.
MedHeadlines:
Coffee Today Keeps Dementia Away | MedHeadlines: A collaborative team of researchers from Sweden and Denmark enrolled 2,000 adults in the study 21 years ago. Participants self-reported their dietary habits, including their daily coffee consumption. After over two decades, more than 70% of the participants could be tracked for follow-up evaluations. That the research team could find 1,409 now-middle-aged participants out of the original 2,000 is considered an unusually high number.
During those 21 years, 61 people developed dementia. Of those 61, 48 developed Alzheimer’s disease.
After evaluating the effects of many health and socioeconomic factors, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol counts, the research team concluded the participants who drank between three and five cups of coffee a day were 65% less likely to develop dementia than those who drank less.
Drinking even more than five cups a day was also associated with a reduced risk of developing dementia but the number of participants drinking this much coffee was too small to be statistically significant.
While not advocating someone start drinking coffee as a preventive measure, Dr. Miia Kivipelto…
Why not?!
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To be fair, there’s another side to the equation. But personally, I’ll take the hallucinations any day! – Ilene
Caffeine Can Cause Hallucinations, at Life Science by LiveScience Staff
People who take in the caffeine equivalent of three cups of brewed coffee (or seven cups of instant) are more likely to hallucinate, a new study suggests.
The researchers found that people with a caffeine intake that high, whether it came from coffee, tea, chocolate or caffeinated energy drinks or pills, had a three-times-higher tendency to hear voices and see things that were not there than those who consumed the equivalent of a half-cup of brewed coffee (or one cup of instant coffee).
Though most people who drink loads of coffee are not known to hallucinate seriously, when these types of experiences interfere with daily functioning, they are considered to be psychotic…
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