{"id":1679,"date":"2007-12-09T21:26:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T01:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2007-12-16T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T16:00:46","slug":"coffee-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Coffee, huh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he BBC has an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/6930114.stm\">how coffee protects female memory<\/a>: A French research team compared women aged 65 (and older) who drank more than 3 cups of coffee per day with those who only drank one per day. Those who drank more apparently showed less decline in memory tests over a four year period. The protective effect didn&#8217;t seem to apply to men and the results of the research suggest that women metabolize caffeine differently.\n<\/p>\n<p>My eyes fell on the &#8216;See also&#8217; section of that article which link to other (BBC) items on coffee research: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/6254731.stm\">Coffee may help relieve gym pain<\/a> (07), <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/4628070.stm\">&#8216;coffee boosts female sex drive&#8217;<\/a> (06), <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/4444908.stm\">decaf coffee linked to heart risks<\/a> (05) and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/2488117.stm\">caffeine does not raise blood pressure<\/a> (02).\n<\/p>\n<p>I think that covers all of coffee&#8217;s important properties. I guess what I&#8217;m trying to say is that if you have to get up early in the morning, you definitely shouldn&#8217;t drink coffee at night.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Coffee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/science.easternblot.net\/?p=582\">magical stuff mentioned elsewhere (2 days earlier!)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has an article about how coffee protects female memory: A French research team compared women aged 65 (and older) who drank more than 3 cups of coffee per day with those who only drank one per day. Those &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11],"tags":[231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}