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Coffee ‘may reverse Alzheimer’s’

Five cups a day!!!!  My lord.  That should cure just about anything.  Well I guess it all depends on how you define a cup.  Heck, on my coffee pot a “cup” is six ounces!

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Drinking five cups of coffee a day could reverse memory problems seen in Alzheimer’s disease, US scientists say.Read more at news.bbc.co.uk
 

Vitamins Don’t Work - Or Worse

An interesting article listing clinical trial and meta-study results of vitamin usage.  It may be that not only are vitamin supplements not needed - they may hurt you.

Amplify’d from well.blogs.nytimes.com

The best efforts of the scientific community to prove the health benefits of vitamins keep falling short.

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a large clinical trial of almost 15,000 male doctors taking vitamins E and C for a decade. The study showed no meaningful effect on cancer rates.

Another recent study found no benefit of vitamins E and C for heart disease.

And recently, doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York warned that vitamin C seems to protect not just healthy cells but cancer cells, too.

A Johns Hopkins School of Medicine review of 19 vitamin E clinical trials of more than 135,000 people showed high doses of vitamin E
increased a person’s risk for dying during the study period by 4 percent. Taking vitamin E with other vitamins and minerals resulted in a 6 percent higher risk of dying. Another study of daily vitamin E showed vitamin E takers had a 13 percent higher risk for heart failure.
20 milligrams a day of beta carotene showed an 18 percent higher incidence of lung cancerRead more at well.blogs.nytimes.com