
IF you drink copious cups of tea or coffee you may be in luck, as a study suggests this contributes to a lower risk of dementia.
People who drank 11 cups a week, on average, had a third lower risk of getting diagnosed compared to those who just had nine cups a week.
But it wasn’t just tea and coffee that had a beneficial effect.
It was higher consumption of healthy foods that helps ward off the devastating memory-wiping illness.
The study looked at 1,059 people in Greece with an average age of 73 who did not have dementia.
Each person answered a food frequency questionnaire about their diet over the past month, including how much they are dairy products, cereals, fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, fats, alcohol, sweets and legumes – which include beans, lentils and peas.
They were given a score for how inflammatory their diet was.
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SOURCE: The Sun, Vanessa Chalmers