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The very first thing I went back on when I decided to quit the diet was caffeine (like, I chose it before actual food), and the difference was like night and day.īelieve me, my life is one thousand percent better with a mild dose of stimulant. My boring repetitive job was even more soul-crushing. My mental recall and nimbleness of mind plummeted (yes, I actually have statistical proof of this). I gave up caffeine (tapering down) when I was put on an incredibly restrictive diet, and lived without it for about five months. (Also I've found the Guardian's science coverage to be rather poor in general.) "Recent studies found that coffee drinkers are less likely to die from some of the leading causes of death in women: coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease." "Caffeine is not only linked to a lower chance of developing Parkinson's disease, but it may also help those with the condition better control their movements." "researchers found that women age 65 and older who drank two to three cups of coffee a day were less likely to develop dementia in general" I've run across lots of studies about the health benefits of coffee-drinking, but here's a random sampling from a very quick search. I'm always suspicious of theories like this that are based on indirect connections - A might cause B B is kind of associated with C C is bad for you so you'd better avoid A.Įspecially when there are more direct studies that suggest the exact opposite of your indirect-theory's conclusions. "esearch suggests that insufficient sleep may be a key factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease." Posted by los pantalones del muerte at 8:31 PM on J Forgive me if I don't lend too much credence to breathless pearl-clutching in a newspaper science puff piece. This article once again looks to be nothing more than the latest spin on massaging coffee studies to fit whatever axe you have to grind. ( This site is where I grabbed my quick-and-dirty country ranking, and is a handy way of looking these up if you too have suddenly become curious.) So it would appear by my random-guy-on-the-internet armchair metrics I might just as easily manage to put together a result showing caffeine's beneficial effects against dementia and Alzheimer's are keeping Finland's dementia issue from being even worse. Oh noes!īut not so fast! The other contenders for top coffee drinkers, Denmark, Iceland, and the Netherlands seem to have much lower rates than the rest of the world, and the Finnish rates appear to be likely linked to some pretty gnarly environmental factors. And indeed, Finland, the highest per capita drinker of coffee on the planet does have also the highest dementia rate on Earth. The implied link to Alzheimer's by a single doctor raised my eyebrows, especially since rather the opposite has been shown more than once, and-given my family history-I also value coffee for its (possible, not conclusively shown) beneficial protection against diabetes. On the other hand: Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever Which seems like a vicious horrible cycle, for sure.Īnyway, it's nice to have some science to back up how I've felt about it. Since I never got hooked on coffee to begin with, I never got into this cycle where it actually disrupts my sleep, leading me to. People always ask me how I get by without coffee, and I honestly have always felt the answer was that I didn't get addicted to coffee for the purpose of staying awake at work to begin with (I have always struggled with sleep and staying awake often isn't that difficult for me). Suddenly, not being able to sit inside a diner and consume both, I stopped sitting inside diners and I stopped consuming both. I had always deeply associated coffee and cigarettes and sitting in a diner drinking too much coffee, smoking strings of cigarettes and drawing or writing was definitely my weird go-to for a long-time. I was lucky when my state passed a smoking ban around 2005 or so.