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This Is Your Brain on Coffee
By ALAN SMITH
A. But men who reported drinking two or three cups of coffee a day were 10 percent less likely to have died than those who didn’t drink coffee, while women drinking the same amount had 13 percent less risk of dying during the study. It’s not clear exactly what coffee had to do with their longevity, but the correlation is striking.
B. But a cup or three of coffee “has been popular for a long, long time,” Dr. Freund says, “and there’s probably good reasons for that.”
C. But it’s only recently that scientists are figuring out that the drink has notable health benefits. In one large-scale epidemiological study from last year, researchers primarily at the National Cancer Institute parsed health information from more than 400,000 volunteers, ages 50 to 71, who were free of major diseases at the study’s start in 1995. By 2008, more than 50,000 of the participants had died.
D. FOR hundreds of years, coffee has been one of the two or three most popular beverages on earth.
E. Other recent studies have linked moderate coffee drinking — the equivalent of three or four 5-ounce cups of coffee a day or a single venti-size Starbucks — with more specific advantages: a decrease in the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, the most common skin cancer and oral cancer recurrence.
F. Nor is there any evidence that mixing caffeine with large amounts of sugar, as in energy drinks, is healthful.
G. There’s still much to be learned about the effects of coffee. “We don’t know whether blocking the action of adenosine is sufficient” to prevent or lessen the effects of dementia, says Dr. Gregory G. Freund, a professor of pathology at the University of Illinois who led the 2012 study of mice.
H. Participants with little or no caffeine circulating in their bloodstreams were far more likely to have progressed to Alzheimer’s than those whose blood indicated they’d had about three cups’ worth of caffeine.
I. In a 2012 study of humans, researchers from the University of South Florida tested the blood levels of caffeine in older adults with the first glimmer of serious forgetfulness, a common sign of Alzheimer’s disease, and then re-evaluated them two to four years later.
J. It is also unclear whether caffeine by itself provides the benefits associated with coffee drinking or if coffee contains other valuable ingredients.
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