Re: Mooshee News: Beber Mais De 4 Xícaras de Café Por Dia Ajuda Em Um Tipo De Artrite.

Tambem ha ja mais de 10 anos, cientistas mundiais
informaram pela revista SCIENTIST, que:

beber mais de 4 cafezinos ao dia, (coisa que muitos
fazem nos escritorios do mundo todo): SIGNIFICA
estarem DROGADOS pela *cafeina, tambem presente
em todos refrigerantes gasosos*.

-Que se mutilem os DROGADOS ! *** theirselves !


On 25 maio, 16:55, "Mooshee.com: Knowledge is Health!"
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Mooshee.com - Long-term study links increased coffee consumption to
decreased risk of gout in men over age 40.

Coffee is a habit for more than 50 percent of Americans, who drink, on
average, 2 cups per day. This widely consumed beverage is regularly
investigated and debated for its impact on health conditions from breast
cancer to heart disease. Among its complex effects on the body, coffee or
its components have been linked to lower insulin and uric acid levels on a
short-term basis or cross-sectionally. These and other mechanisms suggest
that coffee consumption may affect the risk of gout, the most prevalent
inflammatory arthritis in adult males.

To examine how coffee consumption might aggravate or protect against this
common and excruciatingly painful condition, researchers at the Arthritis
Research Centre of Canada, University of British Columbia in Canada, Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public
Health in Boston conducted a prospective study on 45,869 men over age 40
with no history of gout at baseline. Over 12 years of follow-up, Hyon K.
Choi, MD, DrPH, and his associates evaluated the relationship between the
intake of coffee and the incidence of gout in this high risk population.
Their findings, featured in the June 2007 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism
(http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/arthritis), provide compelling
evidence that drinking 4 or more cups of coffee a day dramatically reduces
the risk of gout for men.

Subjects were drawn from an ongoing study of some 50,000 male health
professionals, 91 percent white, who were between 40 and 75 years of age in
1986 when the project was initiated. To assess coffee and total caffeine
intake, Dr. Choi and his team used a food-frequency questionnaire, updated
every 4 years. Participants chose from 9 frequency responses - ranging from
never to 2 to 4 cups per week to 6 or more per day - to record their average
consumption of coffee, decaffeinated coffee, tea, and other
caffeine-containing comestibles, such as cola and chocolate.

Through another questionnaire, the researchers documented 757 newly
diagnosed cases meeting the American College of Rheumatology criteria for
gout during the follow-up period. Then, they determined the relative risk of
incident gout for long-term coffee drinkers divided into 4 groups - less
than 1 cup per day, 1 to 3 cups per day, 4 to 5 cups per day, and 6 or more
cups per day - as well as for regular drinkers of decaffeinated coffee, tea,
and other caffeinated beverages. They also evaluated the impact of other
risk factors for gout - body mass index, history of hypertension, alcohol
use, and a diet high in red meat and high-fat dairy foods among them - on
the association between coffee consumption and gout among the study
participants.

Most significantly, the data revealed that the risk for developing gout
decreased with increasing coffee consumption. The risk of gout was 40
percent lower for men who drank 4 to 5 cups a day and 59 percent lower for
men who drank 6 or more cups a day than for men who never drank coffee.
There was also a modest inverse association with decaffeinated coffee
consumption. These findings were independent of all other risk factors for
gout. Tea drinking and total caffeine intake were both shown to have no
effect on the incidence of gout among the subjects. On the mechanism of
these findings, Dr. Choi speculates that components of coffee other than
caffeine may be responsible for the beverage's gout-prevention benefits.
Among the possibilities, coffee contains the phenol chlorogenic acid, a
strong antioxidant.

While not prescribing 4 or more cups a day, this study can help individuals
make an informed choice regarding coffee consumption. "Our findings are most
directly generalizable to men age 40 years and older, the most
gout-prevalent population, with no history of gout," Dr. Choi notes. "Given
the potential influence of female hormones on the risk of gout in women and
an increased role of dietary impact on uric acid levels among patients with
existing gout, prospective studies of these populations would be valuable."

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