Posted on 03/12/2025 5:21:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An estimated 6.7 million people in the US are living with Alzheimer’s dementia today, and this number could increase to 13.8 million by 2060, according to the NIH. While there are many lifestyle choices that could lower your risk of dementia — including maintaining a good diet, exercising regularly, socializing and keeping your mind stimulated — recent research suggests there’s one humble beverage that can slash your risk with just a few sips.
A study out of Japan has found that older adults who regularly consume green tea have fewer cerebral white matter lesions, aResearchers asked almost 9,000 adults to fill out a questionnaire about their coffee and tea-drinking habits and used brain scans to analyze their data. key indicator of cognitive decline and dementia. While they did not find any evidence that coffee intake might prevent cognitive decline, their results did lead them to conclude that drinking green tea — especially three or more glasses a day — may help prevent dementia.
The findings align with previous studies that have shown green tea consumption can protect you from cognitive decline. A 2022 meta analysis indicates your risk of dementia decreases by 6% for every cup of green tea you consume
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My dear POF, I have a couple of packages of dried seaweed in my cupboard. for wrapping around delicate rice cakes. Back in the day my fellow graduate student pal's wife showed me how to make them. He was legally married to her in Korea by proxy, a woman chose for him by his parents; then she came over to him here, a woman whom he had not personally met before. On her arrival, they had a marriage ceremony here, planned for them by his sponsor, then began their life together.
His prents were very wise. She was very attractive, an accomplished secretary to the president of South Korea, a fine cook and social entertainer, and wholly dedicated to her husband and his well-being, loved by all his circe of friends and fellow students, but especially by her new husband. I like to make rice cakes in memory of her. (I suppose the both may have passe on by now.)
I had the opportunity of visiting them in their residence n Seoul, back in the mid-1980s, being invited to supper that she prepared. Main side dish: kimchi that she herself had made. You want variety in flavors? that kimchi smelled like an old coon dog come in out of the rain, and steamingly drying out on the furnace register grating. You can imagine the taste, loved by Koreans!
Base line: Korean home cooking or restaurant fare is not like ours at all, my FRiend. But my dining with them was a benefit of responding to his invitation to address the representatives of several electronics companies at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, of which my friend was Director. In it I represented my company and the results of my research, to offer our products to an industry starving for technology beyond that of Japan's.
Like to see your reaction to their home cooking!
(Respectful comment and tales of recollections, just for you, POF)
And, oh, quite interestingly, from Wikipedia:
"The institute was founded in 1971 as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIS) by a loan of US$6 million (US$38 million[13] 2019) from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and supported by President Park Chung-Hee." (click here)So now we go about killing off the USAID that through decades made such devoted friends of South Korean intelligentsia, no politics outside of dedication to personal and economic freedom involved.
Try to imagine, a nation that hadbeen for years slaves to the occupying Japanese lords, treated lower than dogs, allowed the lowest forms of foods while the best was shipped to Honshu. They were finally freed to personal liberty in the areas under the protection of the US and UN; the rest in the North re-enslaved by communist tyranny.
What value of individual freedom did one possess who went through the stage of slavery and was liberated after 1945? My graduate pal had. It's been about 80 years now. How much of those values have still been kept shining by the generations since then? (a rhetorical question)
Remember green tea when you encounter it. A symbol of our freedoms to choose, a God-given right to His created souls, whom Satan wants to crush.
Thank you for your choice of username, it's a great one.
ProtectOurFreedom.
Well said and defended.
Yuck.
People with thyroid issues may want to avoid green tea
https://thyroidnation.com/green-tea-compounds-may-cause-thyroid/
As a non Coffee drinker I have found Diet Mountain Dew helpful for those late night sleep issues. Feel sleepy, pull over in a safe place, drink half a 12 oz bottle, close eyes and rest/snooze for 20 minutes, continue driving rested and alert.
Just too good! I'll keep drinking my coffee.
Sorry to hear about brain cancer possible. Fortunately, I only drive once a month to my beach property during lawn mowing season, only time I night drive. Don’t think enough Dew to kill me.
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I miss cigars, La Gloria Wavells, an occasional Pyramid, Arturo Fuente….
Good stuff. Alas, my budget and my health don’t allow them anymore.
Ditto! I drink 4 cups every morning. I do drink unsweetened tea the rest of the day that is half black and half green tea. I gave up “cokes” long ago.
I'm trying to drink more water to flush the salt out of may system.
Check a bit further...and you’ll likely find her genes are the biggest factor in her health.
People who drink beer have less kidney stones.
Half a La Gloria would put me into Afib. I still have the AF 858’s that I bought when my son was born, resting in Spanish cedar. He’s an electrician now.
Half a La Gloria would put me into Afib. I still have the AF 858’s that I bought when my son was born, resting in Spanish cedar. He’s an electrician now.
Absinthe?.....................
Too bad green tea sucks.
This is the title for one of those click-bait thingees to watch some 45 minute monolog which never addresses the point raised in the titel.
Why not just put green tea in the title.
Green Tea
Made me lol
They have a bite
I’d rather drink the grass clippings than be a slave to rocks in hot water, supplemented by latte, caramel macchiato, almond milk, pumpkin spice, and whatever other yoga pants toppings they have.
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