Via NYTimes:
…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.
Boo yah!
That is great news! I have my two cups (12oz each) and then a nice Cappuccino with a dollop of Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream on top late in the day! No wonder my mind is so sharp!! ha ha ha
We drink Peet’s exclusively, they buy from lots of small farmers and help them produce better coffee. They Are on line and when ordering on line you can see just when the coffee was roasted. Here in the Bay Area I get our coffee the day after it was roasted. They are reasonable priced also.
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What a great post Christy.
Finally, some decent research!
I would never have made it through architecture school without my coffee! (Had to drink it black, though, because it’s much easier to clean off the drawings* g*)
Love the blog, Christy!
Great, now as I step heavily into my twilight years, I’ll continue to recognize my growing stupidity, not to be shielded by my dementia. God, will it ever end? Well more margaritas are in order! Cheers!
I’m holding out for the Reddhead West Virginia Roast.
Christy, OT, sorry.
Yesterday, there was a contempt of court hearing for the DC Child & Family Services, motion filed by Children’s Rights (Marcia Lowry and Arthur Spitzer from DC ACLU). Basically, the motion was in response to the agency refusing to be monitored by the court-ordered monitor, Judith Meltzer. Also, the agency proposed permanency placement for only 18 children (yes, only 18) out of 800 children who are designated for eligible for adoption. Part of the permanency plan for the remaining 782 children is “early emancipation.” Wow, just wow.
My question: What does the court usually do with this kind of motion? How long does the judge take to rule?
(The judge is Thomas Hogan). Is it reasonable to expect federal takeover of the agency?
Thanks, if you have time to think about this! posaune
Gotta worry about such studies. Are they looking at people in the same age classes? You might find, for example that more heavy coffee drinkers are dying from other ailments years before they are of an age to develop dementia. Or that heavy coffee drinkers fall into other categories, like getting out more often, not drinking as much alcohol, being more active/working longer, etc.
On the other hand….there is always the other hand.;)
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I started drinking coffee as a child when I would crawl up in Mom or Dad’s lap and they had half a cup left and ask/beg for it “Can I have whut’s lay-eft?”
Coffee is a good.
Ah, more leftover junk science from the Bush era.
Will it never end? *g*
Generally…the rule is in Science (particularly those that relate to health studies) wait for the confirmatory study. Look at the scale of the risk and the effect, and the numbers involved.
Just on the surface they had a dementia rate of 4.3% in their total sample of middle-aged that they followed through 21 years. The effect was about 66%…which means that the heavy drinking group might have had a dementia rate of about 3.5% while the lower drinking group had about 5.2%. But if the heavy coffee drinkers were dying off at earlier ages then you might end up with a larger “older” pool of lower level coffee drinkers…and thus an increased level of dementia in that group. Notice as well that they “corrected” for “high blood pressure”…heavy coffee drinkers likely have higher circulatory problems – so that’s a downside for survival. And perhaps this subgroup balances out the dementia statistics.
If you live longer you’re likely going to be at increased risk for dementia. I suspect Mormons, who have longer lifespans (and also drink less coffee, alcohol, and even tea) likely have more dementia than other groups. But that’s just a guess.
Continued studies also show that those who drink 5 or more cups of coffee per day are more physically active … ostensibly from having to go pee more often.
So there you go … the cure for Couch Potatoes is more coffee. *g*
Nice, going with the Costco Seattle Mountain Blend.
I’ve never liked coffee, though I tried it again when we we going to Finland (because I had read that it’s considered impolite by Finns not to accept an offer of coffee) and found I could tolerate it. Still, I think I’ll wait for a confirming study before I make myself take it up. *g*
And I read less chance of breast CA for women; now that’s worth researching.
One always has to be cautious about these studies. They show a correlation, but there’s no guarantee that one causes the other. There could be another, unknown variable that is also correlated with both less prevalence of dementia and coffee-drinking.
What it would seem to suggest, though, is that we’re not killing our brains by drinking coffee. That’s … where was I?
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Good Morning Christy……. before all this cancer treatment I could put down a 12 cup pot of coffee per day and sometimes more……. since then…..not so much…… even went two weeks with none……. (shocking)
Humans have been drinking coffee for centuries and wondered if the reason that so many tests were conflicting because of the petrochemicals soup which now is found in everything. Now buy free trade grown in shade coffee (not cutting down the forests) organic coffee…….