Good news for me and most everyone I know - a new study has linked coffee consumption to a lower risk of developing age-related dementia. Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee-drinking habits in a group of 1,409 men and women for an average of 21 years. After controlling for various socioeconomic and health factors, the researchers found that subjects who drank three to five cups of coffee daily were 65 percent less likely to have developed age-related dementias, including Alzheimers, as those who had two cups or less.
Scientists are unsure how or why coffee might have a protective effect against dementia, but speculate that it might be due to an antioxidant effect. Coffee-drinking has already been shown to have a link with lower risk of type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
1-26-2009 @10:12PM Lauren said... Erm...... I don't know what it says about my age or my coffee drinking, but I read that headline as 'age-related diarrhea'. I caught up about two-thirds through the first paragraph.
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1-27-2009 @1:08PM Dr. Charles Martin said... Great article. The researchers estimated the diabetes risk reduction on the order of 30 percent. We wrote about the diabetes link at http://dentistryfordiabetics.com/blog/?p=171.
- Charles Martin, DDS
Founder, Dentistry For Diabetics
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