Coffee Consumption Strongly Linked To Preventing Alzheimer's

An anonymous reader writes "Those cups of coffee that you drink every day to keep alert appear to have an extra perk — especially if you're an older adult. A recent study monitoring the memory and thinking processes of people older than 65 found that all those with higher blood caffeine levels avoided the onset of Alzheimer's disease in the two-to-four years of study follow-up. Moreover, coffee appeared to be the major or only source of caffeine for these individuals."

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[Megane]

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ...

[NEDHead]

And the Japanese tea has this cool glow-in-the-dark ambiance...

what did you say?

[ILongForDarkness]

Who are you, why are you here?

Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ...

[ILongForDarkness]

The article claims 3 cups of coffee a day. Tea has about half the caffeine so you'd be looking at 6 cups a day. No wonder the brits are always taking the piss.

Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ...

[Norwell Bob]

Then, as a spelling Nazi, I assume you didn't actually mean "Unless they lose it somewhere.

Re:Correlation or causation?

[0123456]

Maybe people with Alzheimer's forget where they left their coffee and never drink it.

Obligatory...

[tool462]

... SMBC [smbc-comics.com] ;)
Had you for a second there, didn't I?

It's not that caffeine prevents Alzheimer's, caffeine dilates time itself. We live a lifetime of productive bliss in only a few moments. Why else do non-coffee drinkers never appear to age? In what feels like 60 years for us, only a short time passes for them. They look younger because they are younger. But, they also live long enough to get Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer. In a twist of irony our lives are shorter but our years are longer. We looked to the internet for the Singularity, but we should have looked inside. The Singularity is us.

Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

On the plus side, if the caffeine is the causative agent, supplementation would be pretty easy.

The one positive side effect of the (otherwise dreadful) fad for leaching perfectly good caffeine out of wholesome caffeinated goods is that it creates a supply of the relatively pure stuff that can be added to things deprived by nature of their rightful share...

Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ...

[treeves]

Well, as a *spelling* Nazi, his expertise is limited to detecting misspelled words, not misused words. He apparently doesn't have the combined spelling/grammar or spelling/usage Nazi certification.

Re:emoticon Nazi

[gestalt_n_pepper]

A thousand pardons ;)

Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ...

[mcgrew]

Dew knot truss yore spill checker!

Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ...

[gvaness]

God yes, I remember that stuff. My Mom had a huge bar of it in the freezer for baking and told me I wouldn't like it, and not to eat it. Ten year old me thought he was so smart to figure out that Mom was just pulling one over on him to keep all the chocolate for herself. After all, how the hell could they make chocolate that I wouldn't like? Then I snuck a big chunk of it and could only think it had been a trap the whole time.