Study: Coffee Can Lower Risk Of Dementia

Drinking coffee may do more than just keep you awake. A new study suggests an intriguing potential link to mental health later in life, as well.

A team of Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee consumption in a group of 1,409 middle-age men and women for an average of 21 years. During that time, 61 participants developed dementia, 48 with Alzheimer's disease.

After controlling for numerous socioeconomic and health factors, including high cholesterol and high blood pressure, the scientists found that the subjects who had reported drinking three to five cups of coffee daily were 65 percent less likely to have developed dementia, compared with those who drank two cups or less. People who drank more than five cups a day also were at reduced risk of dementia, the researchers said, but there were not enough people in this group to draw statistically significant conclusions.

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[jasonowalker]

02:06 PM on 01/30/2009

Studies also report tea drinking can prevent dementia, Alzheimers­, and Parkinson'­s. Tea may also improve memory.

http://www­.tea.ca/Pa­ge.asp?Pag­eID=122&Co­ntentID=75­8

http://www­.scienceda­ily.com/re­leases/200­4/10/04103­0144110.ht­m

Jason
walkertear­eview.com

[harriettubman]

01:05 PM on 01/30/2009

Tomorrow it'll be peanuts. Who believes this stuff?

[DiogenesOfAlaska]

04:50 PM on 01/28/2009

Good to know.

[amluvinit2]

06:53 PM on 01/27/2009

I knew it ! My one vice, and it's good for me !

[CLPR]

06:15 PM on 01/27/2009

well that's good to know at least one thing I'm doing is good for me!

[ENK727]

05:53 PM on 01/27/2009

I stopped drinking coffee because it bothered my stomach all the time. It can really do a number on your stomach. I can't imagine drinking 3-5 cups per day. I switched to tea.

[Carrie-On]

01:59 AM on 01/28/2009

Must be those beans, ENK. Last week coffee ("just 2 cups a day") causes hallucinat­ions, then the competitio­n goes into action (corporate America) and proves coffee protects our synapses, and dendrites. What will they dream up next? Oh, I know, a pill that will do the same thing as 3-5 cups of coffee per day.

I bet if we chew the beans, stand on our heads and spit against the wind, they'll help us, too.

Where is that group in the study, now? Hmmmm? I'd like to know.

[minimalist syntax]

02:05 AM on 01/29/2009

Your skepticism might be misplaced. A study takes a lot longer than one week to complete and anything published in an academic journal has to go through a peer review process; it takes a while before it is approved for publicatio­n. In addition, many studies are actually financed by the CDC or other health organizati­ons that want to find out the relation between the environmen­t and a disease. For example, a study might look at the relation between what vessels are used to cook food (e.g. glass, aluminum, stainless steel, etc.) and creutzfeld­t jakob disease. Studies can reach even apparently conflictin­g results because they are designed differentl­y and take different factors into account.

[Tulka2]

05:19 PM on 01/27/2009

And.... wanna take a guess who funded this research? Not tea importers. Studies like this are pointless without knowing who paid for it.

[VOTER]

06:19 PM on 01/29/2009

True.

[BearsLeft]

04:06 PM on 01/27/2009

Between this and the Prostate Cancer findings, I'm living a very healthy lifestyle!

[tlgeiger62]

01:05 PM on 01/27/2009

If only Bush would have KNOWN!!

[monicaangela]

04:25 PM on 01/27/2009

LOL!!!!!

[Carrie-On]

02:00 AM on 01/28/2009

ROLFLMAO!!­!