Coffee Cuts Parkinson’s Risk

Coffee’s already been proven to reduce the risk of various cancers, heart disease and Alzheimer’s, and now new research has found Parkinson’s disease is yet another condition regular consumption can protect against. A review of all the available data conducted by scientists from the University of Porto, Portugal, found that dinking two to three cups a day can reduce the risk of acquiring the debilitating neurological disease by up to a quarter.

That figure fell to 15% when the researchers looked only at women. There was also a direct link between the amount of coffee consumed and the extent of protection conferred, with only those drinking several cups a day gaining the full 25% reduction in risk. Although the protective properties of coffee had been suggested before the evidence proved conflicting.

This latest research collated information from 26 different published studies in drawing its conclusions. According to the researchers, the study “confirms an inverse association between caffeine intake and the risk of PD, which can hardly by explained by bias or uncontrolled confounding.”