apparently, i am out of the loop on this one but i saw it at jolly roger's blog- and so i am going with it :)
i have no idea what my ranking or hits have been lately- i haven't kept track since god was a child and i stopped posting as much after the elections. so, i will pick blogs at random- since i no longer have a blog roll.
making good mondays- my buddy carol gee has this delightful slice of the blogosphere and she also writes south by southwest and posts at the sirens chronicles on tuesdays and the reaction.
i also enjoy coffee messiah because of the mixture of life, prose, pictures and coffee :)
left in aboite- john has a great mix over there of music, funny, political, and sometimes strange
robert rouse of left of center fame has started up a fun, otherworldly blog called LEFT of normal- ufos, sci fi, ghostly hauntings and other weirdly happenings. don't fret- he has promised to pop back into the 'real' world if the political world takes a turn :)
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Hi there! Instead of an e-mail (since I know you're busy with Super Bowl fixin's right now), I figured you'd enjoy this article.
Now you can get another 'cuppa'....
Drinking coffee may do more than just keep you awake. A new study suggests an intriguing potential link to mental health later in life, as well.
A team of Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee consumption in a group of 1,409 middle-age men and women for an average of 21 years. During that time, 61 participants developed dementia, 48 with Alzheimer's disease.
After controlling for numerous socioeconomic and health factors, including high cholesterol and high blood pressure, the scientists found that the subjects who had reported drinking three to five cups of coffee daily were 65 percent less likely to have developed dementia, compared with those who drank two cups or less. People who drank more than five cups a day also were at reduced risk of dementia, the researchers said, but there were not enough people in this group to draw statistically significant conclusions.
Miia Kivipelto, an associate professor of neurology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and lead author of the study, does not as yet advocate drinking coffee as a preventive health measure. "This is an observational study," she said. "We have no evidence that for people who are not drinking coffee, taking up drinking will have a protective effect."
Kivipelto and her colleagues suggest several possibilities for why coffee might reduce the risk of dementia later in life. First, earlier studies have linked coffee consumption with a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, which in turn has been associated with a greater risk of dementia. In animal studies, caffeine has been shown to reduce the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. Finally, coffee may have an antioxidant effect in the bloodstream, reducing vascular risk factors for dementia.
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The new study, published this month in The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, is unusual in that more than 70 percent of the original group of 2,000 people randomly selected for tracking were available for re-examination 21 years later. The dietary information had been collected at the beginning of the study, which reduced the possibility of errors introduced by people inaccurately recalling their consumption. Still, the authors acknowledge that any self-reported data are subject to inaccuracies.
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