“Remember Me? Of course you do because you drink Columbian Coffee”
The January issue of The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease features the results of this study which tracked some 2,000 people over a 21 year period. During the study period the participants self-reported their dietary habits; which included their coffee consumption. 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, associate professor of neurology at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, suggests the following factors may be involved:
* Previous studies have found drinking coffee decreases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a disease that raises the risk of dementia.
* Animal studies have shown that caffeine reduces formation of amyloid plaques in the brain. These plaques are a distinguishing characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease.
* Coffee may be a bloodstream-protecting antioxidant that protects the vascular system enough to reduce the likelihood of dementia.Kivipelto also noted coffee consumption has been linked to decreased risk of Parkinson’s disease.
So, it turns out some drugs are actually beneficial. Great, and I just gave up coffee a few weeks ago.
JUAN VALDEZ! to the rescue with another sack of that wonderful colombian grain…
I don’t drink it because its good for me.
@amodedoma
Those are beans not grain.
The important question was “Why do those people drink so much coffee?” Could it be that they needed to remain alert for some reason? Perhaps strong mental focus and using your brain frequently for important tasks is the *real* indication for reduced dementia.
On a separate note, Mr. Valdez should really be in a suit and tie with a Blackberry in his hand so he can receive coffee futures info.
5 cups a day? Every day? I can see how it would keep away dementia since you’d have to remain alert and cognizant so you could find a bathroom every 15 minutes.
#4 – Thanks a lot! You made me spit out my — coffee.
It also helps with weight loss if you’re doing cardio – you metabolize fat more easily.
2-3 cups a day is considered normal, unless you’re Paddy-O and have the bladder of a moose.
Not so for decaf?
#2
Thank you, english is my mother tongue, but for the last 20 years Spanish is my primary language.
If it weren’t for blogs and communications with the family I’d hardly use it at all.
Good grief… health studies on coffee are like teeth: most everyone has at least few.
When are we going to stop reporting this inane stuff and finally recognize the medical researchers working on coffee for what they are?: incompetents incapable of making scientific conclusions after 30 years of work, who are addicted to cheap and easy media coverage.
We really need to stop encouraging the medical infotainment industry.
John,
Only 5 cups? My parents used to drink 5 cups for breakfast. When I was growing up, both my mom and dad had a cup of cheap black coffee in their right hand and a cigarette in left, from the moment they woke to the moment they slept. The constant cheap black coffee was a habit my dad picked when he served in the Navy, then mom picked it up from him.
They seriously used to go through withdrawals after an hour with no coffee, shakes and everything. Us kids learned to constantly keep a hot pot of black coffee on the stove at all times, otherwise they would flip out.
And you don’t even want to know what the inside of my dad’s car was like since he refused to let go of the coffee or cigarette when driving.
I don’t smoke or drink coffee. Wonder why?
My father-in-law just passed away (Alzheimer’s, Bladder Cancer) and he drank 3 to 4 pots of weak coffee a day. Caffeine Strength-related?
@GetSmart
TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN! is on my cubicle wall. Sadly I have had to cut back on the coffee because of blood pressure concerns.
#10, Ron,
I don’t smoke or drink coffee. Wonder why?
Your Alzheimer’s keeps you forgetting to turn on the pot?
🙂
#11, Rain,
Sorry to hear. I lost my own father five weeks ago. He lived to 88.
Dad loved good coffee and drank several cups a day.He was strong right up to until the colon cancer overwhelmed him.
You want to see a real revolution? Ban coffee! The resulting chaos would make Al Capone and friends look like amateurs.
Only 5 cups? That gets me to about 5 in the afternoon. A couple more in the evening just for fun.
But DO ban Starbuck’s. Nasty, burnt, overpriced coffee that people have to put all kinds of shit into to make palatable.
Best Regards,
Mrs. Olson
#10 – Ron Larson,
I don’t smoke or drink coffee. Wonder why?
Hmm…. Smoke coffee. I never thought of that. I’ve thought of intravenous. I’ve thought of brewing it with buzzwater. But, I never thought of smoking it.
I’ll get back to you later on the results.
You should see the looks I get here in Utah supplying my wife’s $50/week coffee habit.
When are you morons going to realize it’s ColOmbian and not ColUmbian. For the love of God that’s the 3rd article I’ve seen in the last year with the name of the freakin country mispelled. There lies the difference between a blogger and a journalist.
Yeah it’s great to know that if by some odd mischance the five cups of coffee a day doesn’t drive you crazy or trigger a heart attack or stroke due to high blood pressure, etc, then you’re less likely to get dementia.
#18, Jimy Heel,
You should see the looks I get here in Utah supplying my wife’s $50/week coffee habit.
So is she smoking it?
🙂
#19. Learn to spell moran, moron.
All this great health news about drinking coffee and red wine, is a bit suspect to me. Tea has been around a lot longer than coffee. But nobody is going to pay $3 for a cup of tea at Starbucks. So only Coffee get the study done for it. And naturally wine sales are down now, so its supposed benefits must be hyped in the news. This is all just pumping by those with their fingers in the commodities market.