Health

Coffee to slow memory declines in women?
by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

A research conducted by a French group and revealed on Monday gives women more reasons to love the world's most popular stimulant. According to researchers 3 cups of coffee a day slows down some age-related memory declines. Men on the other hand don't seem to enjoy these benefits of coffee. Researchers followed the health and mental functions, of more than 7,000 men and women in 3 French cities, and asked them about they're past and current drinking and eating habits, daily activities, etc. They found that women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day, or its caffeine equivalent in tea, had a 33 percent lower odds of having verbal memory declines and 18 percent lower odds of having visual and spatial memory declines, compared to women who drank one cup or fewer per day. Karen Ritchie, the lead-researcher of the team is not sure why only women benefit from caffeine. "Our best guess is that women don't metabolize coffee in the same way (as men)," she said in a telephone interview. Although coffee has these benefits on memory, Ritchie says people should weight them against other effects of the stimulant including high blood pressure.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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