Reduce Risk of Age Related Cataracts with Coffee

Reduce Risk of Age-

Related Cataracts with

Coffee

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We have another health benefit to

add to the list of reasons to drink

healthy organic coffee and even

regular coffee.

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The Journal of the American Medical

Association (JAMA) has published an

article showing that food antioxidants

help prevent cataracts.


http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2190970



Main Outcomes and Measures:

Information on incident age-related

cataract diagnosis and extraction

was collected through linkage to

registers in the study area.




Results: There were 4309 incident cases of age-related cataracts during the mean 7.7 years of follow-up (234 371 person-years). The multivariable rate ratio in the highest quintile of the TAC of the diet compared with the lowest was 0.87 (95% CI, 0.79-0.96; P for trend = .03). The main contributors to dietary TAC in the study population were fruit and vegetables (44.3%), whole grains (17.0%), and coffee (15.1%).




That’s right. Fruits and vegetables,

whole grains and coffee all contain

antioxidants that help reduce the

incidence of age related cataracts.




Although there are foods with higher

antioxidant concentration than

coffee, the amount of coffee that

people consume is such that most

people derive the most antioxidants

in their diets from coffee.




So, you can reduce the risk of age-

related cataracts with coffee.




What Are Cataracts?




The Mayo Clinic web site defines cataracts.


http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cataracts/basics/definition/con-20015113



A cataract is a clouding of the

normally clear lens of your eye. For

people who have cataracts, seeing

through cloudy lenses is a bit like

looking through a frosty or fogged-up

window.




Clouded vision caused by cataracts

can make it more difficult to read,

drive a car (especially at night) or

see the expression on a friend's face.




Most cataracts develop slowly and

don't disturb your eyesight early on.

But with time, cataracts will

eventually interfere with your vision.




Cataracts from old age show up in a

person’s 70’s and 80’s.




If you reduce your risk of age-related

cataracts with coffee you may be

looking at your 80’s and 90’s as when you need to be concerned.




Why Does This Work?




Why can you reduce the risk of age-

related cataracts with coffee and

other high anti-oxidants foods and

beverages?




First of all what are antioxidants?

The Nutrition Source at the Harvard

School of Public Health defines antioxidants.


http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/antioxidants/



The body’s trillion or so cells face

formidable threats, from lack of food

to infection with a virus. Another

constant threat comes from nasty

chemicals called free radicals.




They are capable of damaging cells

and genetic material. The body

generates free radicals as the

inevitable byproducts of turning food

into energy. Others are in the food

you eat and the air you breathe.




Some are generated by sunlight’s

action on the skin and eyes.




Free radicals come in many shapes,

sizes, and chemical configurations.

What they all share is a voracious

appetite for electrons, stealing them

from any nearby substances that will

yield them.




This electron theft can radically alter

the “loser’s” structure or function.

Free radical damage can change the

instructions coded in a strand of

DNA.




It can make a circulating low-density lipoprotein (LDL, sometimes called bad cholesterol) molecule more likely to get trapped in an artery wall. Or it can alter a cell’s membrane, changing the flow of what enters the cell and what leaves it.




We aren’t defenseless against free

radicals. The body, long used to this

relentless attack, makes scads of

molecules that quench free radicals

as surely as water douses fire.




We also extract free-radical fighters from food. These defenders are often lumped together as “antioxidants.” They work by generously giving electrons to free radicals without turning into electron-scavenging substances themselves.




The point of all this is that

antioxidants defend us against the

degrading effects of free radicals and in general promote good health.




More than Just

Protection against Cataracts




Coffee and especially good organic

coffee offer more than reduction of

the risk of age-related cataracts.




Consistent coffee consumption

reduces the risk of Type II Diabetes,

various forms of cancer, Alzheimer’s

disease, Parkinson’s disease,

depression and the risk of suicide.




Enjoy your morning coffee and

benefit from those healthy antioxidants as well.


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