dementia

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,…

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…