A daily cup of coffee in the morning can help get you going and stay focused, but changing your habits by consuming more coffee over time could raise your risk of mild cognitive impairment, says new research from scientists in Italy.
The study, co-authored by Dr. Vincenzo Solfrizzi of the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy, involved 1,445 individuals recruited from 5,632 subjects, aged 65-84 year old, from the Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging (ILSA). Read more on reliawire.
I think using cell phones and other wireless devices is more damaging to your brain!
This study is hogwash.
The people in the study are 60-85
Could it be possibly old age?
I have 3-4 cups a day
It gives me strength
Keeps me focused
And clears my sinuses
Disagree, coffee is healthy
what’s life without coffee!!!
nonsense. stop scaring people for no reason. it isn’t the coffee or the caffeine that it contains. it is more probably what people add to their coffee, such as sugar or some “no calorie chemicals”. they took people 60-85 years old, and 1) these people (especially the ones that are already experiencing some cognitive impairment) have to remember and tell these “researchers” what they drank for the past 40+ years. 2)no mention in the study if they added a sweeteners or milk/cream to their coffee. 3) no mention on the type of coffee they drank. e.g.. instant coffee has about 31mg of caffeine, generic brewed can have 95-200 mg, Starbucks brewed about 330 mg, a latte about 75mg etc. point being, if the issue is caffeine, they need all these people to be drinking same type of coffee, since 1 cup of Starbucks is about 10 cups of instant. the only similarities they could have is the amount of sweeteners that were added…
Every week there is a study that contradicts the study from the week before .
To much brain damage the coffee
@mark maybe your coffee drinking is causing your sinus problem? Also if I’m 84 and pretty mobile, I’m just grateful.
1445 subjects? Out of a world of 7 Billion? Not exactly a representative study, no? Besides, numerous well controlled, published, peer reviewed double blind studies show the opposite.
What’s worse. Cigarettes or coffee?
I read a study that if someone drinks coffee for 88 years (must contain at least 2,000 mg caffeine, 48gr of sweetener) that person will live long. All these studies make my hair falls out. Maybe there should be a study of why my hair is thinning…… Oh wait….. Probably cause of the cell phone, second hand smoke, coffee, hogwash etc…. What a waste of a study.