Coffee may slow memory declines in women: study

Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day helped protect older women against some age-related memory decline, French researchers said on Monday, giving women more reason to love the world’s most popular stimulant.

Men did not enjoy the same benefit, they said.

“The more coffee one drank, the better the effects seemed to be on (women’s) memory functioning in particular,” said Karen Ritchie at the French National Institute of Medical Research, whose work appears in the journal Neurology.

The researchers followed more than 7,000 men and women in three French cities, checking their health and mental function and asking them about their current and past eating and drinking habits, their friends, and their daily activities.

They used this information to sort out the specific role caffeine played in these women’s lives.

They found that women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day, or its caffeine equivalent in tea, retained more of their verbal and — to a lesser extent — visual memories over four years.

These women 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.

The effect also depended on age, with women over 80 reaping more benefits from these beverages than those who were 10 to 15 years younger, Ritchie’s team wrote. It was unclear whether current or former coffee consumption made the difference.

Some studies in mice have suggested that caffeine might block the buildup of proteins that lead to mental decline.

Ritchie is not sure why only women benefited in her study.

“Our best guess is that women don’t metabolize coffee in the same way (as men),” she said in a telephone interview.

Ritchie plans to follow the women longer to see if caffeine delays the onset of dementia — the mental confusion that signals Alzheimer’s disease and other brain disorders.

She said people should weigh any brain gains derived from caffeine against other effects of the stimulant, including raised blood pressure.

The average American drinks one to two cups of coffee a day, according to the National Coffee Association.

Source: Yahoo News

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I’ll still be lovin’ you…

This song is such so full of love. Just think of your man professing his love to you using the first three lines of the chorus. How sweet!

I wish I find a guy who will tell me those words.

And love me for the geek that I am.

12 going on 29… Take it! Take it!

It was a great long weekend for me. I was able to rest and read some books. I was able to sleep a lot as well, something I’ve been neglecting when I am not sick. That is why you haven’t seen me around for days. I update my blogs because of the sponsored posts I need to upload but afterward, I log out and go back to bed.

Anyway, now I am not sick anymore and I am well-rested. Rain started pouring this afternoon and it was really good. Life is so much better when you see it through happy eyes

My Subhosted Friends

It was just this afternoon that I realized a lot of people think that Mousey of sasha-says/joanne and me are the same person. Ooops… maybe I have neglected my landlady duties. I will re-introduce my subhosted friends once again.

Mousey has two subdomains under me. One is under mousey.sasha-says.com (issues with some programs that’s why I made another one for her) and sasha-says.com/joanne. She also has a blogspot blog that you can visit for other updates on her.

Racky is Ate Neng or most popularly known as the sirena hehe… You can visit her blogspot blog as well for old posts.

Wendy is The Maven.

And last but not the least, Mel of Indulging in My Own Pleasures.

Please visit them. They are all good bloggers And pakisabi galing kayo sa landlady hehehe

Blog Awards

I have received some blog awards again… yipee!

Mousey gave me a Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award…

Sasha - for people like her make the world a nicer place and being kind enough who made me lucky

Thanks, Mousey! Di ako sanay na Joanne ang tawag sa’yo ng mga tao! Hahaha

Devilicious girl awarded me with the Inspirational Blogger Award…

Sasha - For inspiring me to work hard.. She’s among the very few bloggers who, until now, still manages to keep in touch despite my being such a slacker in the blogosphere. I will never forget the time we had that YM convo.. when you opened up to me.. that’s when i realized na di lang pala kami ni che ang nagpapakapanot magwork. May kadamay pala kami.. Thanks Sasha Dear!.

Thank you so much, sis! Naku alam mo naman na halos lahat sa akin since sa bravejournal days ko pa hehehe…

Salamat sobra, friends! Gandang birthday gifts naman nito

All memes will be on my next post

Thanks for always visiting friends!

A tour of the land down under

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Ambitious

Kanina, while having lunch, I remember my very first job interview after graduation in college. I applied at Metrobank. I was interviewed by some bank officers and one of them asked me this question…

Where/how do you see yourself 5 years from now?

Without batting an eyelash, I told him that I believe I’d already be a manager by that time, probably managing a small group of accountants.

The man laughed at me. I was too ambitious, he said.

5 years from that interview, I was already with a call center company, managing a group of 3 accountants, second to the finance director of the Philippine business unit.

I forgot the name of the bank officer. I didn’t harbor a grudge against him. I just think that some people by nature tend to belittle their fellow human being that they forget a vision can become a reality once you focus yourself into achieving it.