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Coffee May Prevent Dementia
You drink three to five cups of coffee every day, you can reduce the risk of dementia by 65 percent. This emerged in a survey done by the University of Kuopio in Finland, in cooperation with the National Public Health Institute and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between coffee and risk of dementia. Until now, caffeine-term effect on the central nervous system was unknown.
Prolonged study
1409 people participated in the survey. They specified how much coffee they drank in 1972, 1977, 1982 or 1987, depending on when the participants were middle-aged (average 50 years). They were divided into three groups based on their consumption of coffee:
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