Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain

Chroniton writes "The BBC has a story that many Slashdot geeks will be happy to hear: the caffeine from a cup of coffee a day can help prevent Dementia, by blocking the damage of cholesterol. (At least in rabbits) This is in addition to the already-known protection against Alzheimer's Disease. More research is needed to test the effect on humans."

Comments

Re:god damn it

[morgan_greywolf]

Just make up your fucking minds already, every other week coffee is bad, then good, then bad again.

like it's going to stop anyone drinking it anyway...

It's the media. They take a single study and purport it to be some kind of fact. Science doesn't work that way. Science only considers something 'known' when independent study after independent study shows the same thing to be true, and no studies which may have been contradictory have been shown to contradict the findings.

These things take time. Looking at one study alone can be interesting, but it's stupid to take that study's findings as gospel truth.

Re:Yeah, yeah...

[Sobrique]

It is entirely possible that a glass of wine can both prevent altzheimers, and cause high blood pressure. Just because some of the effects of something are beneficial, and some are negative doesn't mean that one precludes the other.

Most medicines, after all, include side effects.

A single factor of many

[athloi]

Coffee helps protect against dementia.

But, it leeches calcium from your bones.

Still, it avoids erectile dysfunction.

However, it destroys a good night's sleep.

Yet it can keep you thin.

But, it might make you take up smoking...

And so on, forever and ever, until people admit that even scientists recognize the world is more complicated than a single factor at a time.