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The Recipe for Preventing A Stroke: 1 Coffee, 4 Green Teas a Day
The health benefits of coffee and green tea are
better if you drink both. (Photo: Getty Images)
Coffee
lovers
A new study out of Japan shows that people who drink
both beverages every day have a lower risk
of stroke than those who drink just one or the other (or neither).
Researchers have been touting the antioxidant
properties of green tea for years, and recent studies show that your daily
coffee fix boosts more than just your energy levels. But putting the two drinks
together—not in the same cup, of course—may help you reap the health benefits of
both.
Researchers looked at the coffee and tea consumption habits of almost 82,369
Japanese adults over 13 years and found that people who had a cup of coffee
every day were 20 percent less likely to have a stroke (compared to those who
didn't drink coffee at all). But that's not to say that coffee is better for you
than tea. In fact, the study noted that people who drank four or more cups of
green tea a day were also about 20 percent less likely to have a stroke. Since
the two drinks help prevent strokes in different ways, drinking both can lower
your risk of stroke more than just drinking one or the other, the study authors
explained.
"This is the first large-scale study to examine the combined effects of both
green tea and coffee on stroke risks," the study's lead author, Dr. Yoshihiro
Kokubo of Japan's National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, said
in a statement. "You may make a small but positive lifestyle change to help
lower the risk of stroke by adding daily green tea to your diet."
The study was published this week in the American Heart Association's
journal, Stroke.
The results took into account differences in participants' age, gender, smoking,
alcohol, weight, diet, and exercise habits.
According to the National Stroke
Association, a stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery in the
brain, or when a blood vessel breaks, causing an interruption of blood flow to
the brain. Brain cells begin to die, damaging the brain and affecting the
actions—usually speech, movement, and memory—controlled by the part of the brain
where the stroke has occurred.
"The regular action of drinking tea [and] coffee largely benefits
cardiovascular health because it partly keeps blood clots from forming," Kokubo
explained.
Green tea can have an anti-inflammatory effect on the body. It also contains
compounds known as catechins, which can help regulate blood pressure and improve
blood flow, Kokobo told National
Public Radio. And coffee has more to it than just caffeine—it also contains
quinides, compounds that can help
control blood sugar, which cuts your risk of stroke by reducing your risk of
Type 2 diabetes. The researchers wrote that the "combination of higher green tea
and coffee consumptions contributed to the reduced risk of stroke as an
interaction effect for each other," The
Daily Mail reported.
Given that tea and coffee are consumed regularly in many countries, the
results of the study could apply to people around the world, the researchers
wrote. Americans may already be drinking enough coffee and tea to get the
benefits: A typical cup of coffee or tea in Japan is just 6 ounces, while a
grande coffee at Starbucks is 16 ounces.
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