Coffee May Slow Memory Decline in Women

I’ve already confessed what a coffee-junkie I am. A few years ago, I might have felt bad, even guilty about it, but with more and more studies showing the health benefits of caffeine, I actually start to think I’m doing myself good with this little addiction. I still think that like with anything else, moderation is the key and too much of anything cannot be good. But isn’t it amazing how many diseases a cuppa can help prevent– a search for coffee on this blog will return a myriad of articles heart disease, liver cirrhosis, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, pain management, and more recently, even on eyelid spasms.

Because caffeine is an antioxidant, it has also been demonstrated many times how coffee can help prevent cognitive decline, first in men, but now also in women.

“The more coffee one drank, the better the effects seemed to be on (women’s) memory functioning in particular,” said Karen Ritchie at the French National Institute of Medical Research, whose work appears in the journal Neurology.

They found that women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day, or its caffeine equivalent in tea, retained more of their verbal and — to a lesser extent — visual memories over four years.

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