Coffee Reduces Cognitive Decline in Aging Men
I already enumerated some of the reported health benefits of coffee in a previous entry. Well, here’s another one: Coffee consumption seems to slows down cognitive decline in elderly men.
A survey of 670 men born between 1900 and 1920 from Finland, Italy and the Netherlands were observed for a period of 10 years. Coffee consumption were recorded and at the same time, cognitive performance was assessed using the “Mini-Mental State Examination”. The results:
Although the men who consumed coffee also showed cognitive decline (of course, who wouldn’t at that age?), non-consumers had an additional decline of 1.4 points. Also, it appeared that the more coffee one consumed, the better, with the least cognitive decline for three cups of coffee per day. This decline was 4.3 times smaller than the decline of non-consumers.
Now there are two things I’m wondering:
Is there any reason the same shouldn’t apply to women? (Let’s not start a gender war on men and women’s brain functions, please! If, then at least, let’s keep it scientific, ok?)
Would/could coffee consumption impart the same benefit to younger populations whose cognitive decline may not be as fast? (Is it obvious I want to justify the half-liter of coffee I guzzle daily 
? )
While you contemplate, hear some tracks from Peggy Lee’s Black Coffee.
this year there seem to be many health benefits of coffee coming out into the open. it is a memory enhancer in the elderly, both men and women
i guess gone are the years of blaming coffee for major illnesses.
http://www.straightfromthedoc.com/50226711/caffeine_is_memory_enhancer.php