{"id":224401,"date":"2023-12-04T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/?p=224401"},"modified":"2023-12-01T09:07:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:07:57","slug":"regular-coffee-consumption-may-keep-you-spry-in-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/regular-coffee-consumption-may-keep-you-spry-in-old-age-224401.html","title":{"rendered":"Regular Coffee Consumption May Keep You Spry In Old Age","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Coffee has long been the go-to morning ritual to provide you the get-up-and-go you need to attack the day. But its mobilizing properties may have compounding effects over a lifetime of consumption. A new study<\/a> finds that drinking coffee and tea in midlife are associated with a decreased risk of frailty later on.<\/p>\n

As reported by SciTechDaily<\/a>, researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore examined health information and coffee drinking habits of over 12,000 individuals that took part in the 20-year Singapore Chinese Health Study.<\/p>\n

Starting in the early \u201890s, participants between the ages of 45 and 74 (average age 53) underwent baseline interviews to learn their caffeine and food habits\u2014both frequency and portion\u2014as well as their \u201csociodemographic characteristics, medical history, height and weight, dietary habits, physical activities, and sleep duration.\u201d Then in late \u201800s, the first follow-up interview catalogued the participants\u2019 weights. For the final interview, between 2014 and 2017 when they were at an average age of 73, participants underwent a more robust examination. Along with recording their weight, participants were given a handgrip strength test and a \u201ctime up-and-go\u201d (TUG) test as well as asked, \u201cdo you feel full of energy?\u201d<\/p>\n

To be considered physically frail, participants had to meet two of four criteria: more than 10% weight loss between follow ups, weakest quintile in the handgrip test, slowest quintile of the TUG test, and answering \u201cyes\u201d to the energy question.<\/p>\n

When categorizing participants by caffeine intake, researchers found that \u201cdrinking coffee, black tea, or green tea at midlife was independently associated with a significantly reduced likelihood of physical frailty at late life.\u201d In particular, those who drank four or more cups of coffee a day had \u201csignificantly reduced odds.\u201d<\/p>\n

While further investigation into the mechanisms leading to the outcome need to be done, researchers suggest that the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of the polyphenols in coffee\u2014which have a host of health benefits\u2014as well as caffeine\u2019s ability to \u201cincrease proliferation in muscle cells and improve muscle weight\u201d (per tests in lab mice) may be at play.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s a good enough reason not only to drink coffee today, but in perpetuity.<\/p>\n

Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drinking coffee has been linked with significantly reduced odds of physical frailty in old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":59,"featured_media":130778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27348],"tags":[1755,29917,29916],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224403,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224401\/revisions\/224403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}