With coffee against dementia: Those who drink as many cups a day from their 50th birthday prevent memory loss

Created: 05/03/2022 10:53 am

By: Juliane Gutmann

Researchers have now found another reason for regular coffee breaks.

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Are you a passionate coffee drinker?

Keep it up.

The bean drink is said to have many health-promoting effects.

Enjoying coffee should also prevent dementia.

First a coffee: The caffeinated drink made from coffee beans is indispensable in any office.

Huge amounts of coffee beans are also used in cafés and in domestic kitchens.

The health effects of filter coffee and latte macchiato have been investigated in countless studies.

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A team of researchers from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary, has studied the impact of coffee on heart health.

The conclusion of the scientists led by Dr.

Judit Simon from the University's Cardiovascular Center, which they presented at the 2021 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress: 

But not only the heart should benefit from coffee.

Regular coffee consumption also reduces the risk of dementia.

This is the conclusion reached by a research team led by Yuan Zhang from the School of Public Health at Tianjin Medical University in Tianjin, China.

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" according to the main findings of the Chinese-US American research group.

For their analysis, they evaluated the data of 365,682 people between the ages of 50 and 74 from the UK Biobank.

This is a large-scale, long-term British study.

The observation period was around 14 years.

Those study participants who drank two to three cups of coffee or three to five cups of tea were least likely to develop stroke or dementia.

"Compared to those who did not drink tea or coffee, consuming two to three cups of coffee and two to three cups of tea per day was associated with a 32 percent lower risk of stroke and a

" the researchers informed in their study, published in the online journal Plos Medicine.

Coffee consumption also showed positive effects after a stroke: "Consumption of coffee alone or in combination with tea was associated with a lower risk of dementia after a stroke," according to another result of the study.

Care should be taken when choosing coffee:

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If you want to minimize the risk of pollutants in coffee, it is best to use the test winner.

Namely to certified organic coffee (promotional link).

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