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New research links coffee and tea to reduced dementia risk

Two to three cups of caffeinated coffee a day may do more than sharpen your focus. A major long-term study involving more than 130,000 adults suggests that moderate daily coffee intake is linked to a lower risk of dementia and slower cognitive decline—with similar, if slightly smaller, benefits seen among people who drink tea. Decaffeinated coffee, however, did not show the same protective association. Drawing on the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and spanning up to 43 years of follow-up,…

Regular Coffee and Tea Consumption Tied to Lower Dementia Risk

Coffee, caffeine and your brain: Study links two to three cups a day to lower dementia risk Drinking two to three cups of strong coffee a day is associated with a lower risk of dementia and slower cognitive decline, according to a large U.S. study drawing on more than four decades of health data. Researchers from Harvard, MIT and Mass General Brigham analyzed records from 131,821 adults and found that people with the highest intake of caffeinated drinks had an 18% lower risk of developing dementia compared with those who…

Sierra Leone: on Kambui Hill, coffee

In this small West African country, a research group has found traces of a wild coffee that is believed to have disappeared since the early 1960s. in recent years through global warming. "We have been walking for two good hours now, on foot in the Kambui hills, and there we approach the garden to the wild stone shelf ...". Not…

the coffee sector had a strong impact

The eruption of Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo has several economic consequences, particularly in the coffee sector. The harvest that is currently taking place in the region is still being done, but the processing of the coffee beans and their transport is on schedule. As a result, planters run the risk of losing money.…