Thursday, June 6, 2013

Coffee: Healer, Adversary Of Death

This Is Your Brain On Coffee by Gretchen Reynolds.  Well Blog.  The New York Times.  June 6, 2013.

(1)  In a major epidemiological study, men who reported drinking two or three cups of coffee a day were ______ percent to have died than those who did not drink coffee;  For women the comparable figure was ________.

(2)  Other recent studies have seen reduction in risk in developing ______________________.

(3)  Caffeine may reshape the ___________environment in the brains that could stave off ________

(4)  Explain the roles of caffeine and adenosine in the memory-recovery experiment recounted in the article.

(5)  In a study recounted in the article, those research participants with little or no caffeine circulating in their bloodstreams were more likely to have progressed -______________ than those whose blood indicated that they had three cups.

(6)  What are some of the unknowns about coffee and health?

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