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   Increasing coffee intake bad for your brain    
      
   By IANS Published: July 30, 2015    
      
      
   Increasing coffee consumption over time may increase risk of mild cognitive   
   impairment and dementia. PHOTO: PININTEREST    
   Increasing coffee consumption over time may increase risk of mild cognitive   
   impairment and dementia. PHOTO: PININTEREST    
   While drinking your daily cup of coffee can help you stay sharp, modifying   
   your habit by increasing coffee consumption over time may increase risk of   
   mild cognitive impairment (MCI), early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD)   
   and dementia, says new    
   research.    
      
   Read: Drinking coffee doesn't trigger diabetes or obesity    
      
   "These findings from the Italian Longitudinal Study on Ageing suggested that   
   cognitively normal older individuals who never or rarely consumed coffee and   
   those who increased their coffee consumption habits had a higher risk of   
   developing MCI," said one    
   of the researchers Francesco Panza from the University of Bari Aldo Moro,   
   Bari, Italy.    
      
   "Therefore, moderate and regular coffee consumption may have neuroprotective   
   effects also against MCI - confirming previous studies on the long-term   
   protective effects of coffee, tea, or caffeine consumption and plasma levels   
   of caffeine against    
   cognitive decline and dementia," Panza noted.    
      
   The study involved 1,445 individuals aged 65-84 years.    
      
   An interesting finding in this study was that cognitively normal older   
   individuals who modified their habits by increasing with time their amount of   
   coffee consumption ( more than a cup of coffee/day) had about two times higher   
   rate of MCI compared to    
   those with reduced habits (less than a cup of coffee/day).    
      
   They also had about one and a half time higher rate of MCI in comparison with   
   those with constant habits (neither more nor less than one cup of coffee/day).    
      
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   Moreover, those who habitually consumed a moderate amount of coffee (one or   
   two cups of coffee/day) had a reduced rate of the incidence of MCI than those   
   who habitually never or rarely consumed coffee.    
      
      
      
   http://tribune.com.pk/story/929161/increasing-coffee-intake-bad-for-your-brain/   
      
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