1 of 2 | Women who reported consuming caffeinated coffee in mid-life scored better on measures of "healthy aging" in later years, according to a study unveiled Monday at the NUTRITION 2025 conference in Orlando, Fla. Photo by olia danilevich/Pexels
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 2 (UPI) -- Regularly consuming coffee during middle age may provide a health boost for women as they get older, according to a finding unveiled Monday based on preliminary analysis of tens of thousands of health records.
After combing through health data of more than 47,000 women collected over a 30-year period, researchers from Harvard's University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health said they have found evidence that women who drank moderate amounts of coffee in midlife were more likely to exhibit healthy aging, such as continued mental strength and sharpness in their later years.
An abstract of the study's preliminary results was presented at the American Society for Nutrition's NUTRITION 2025 conference in Orlando, Fla., by lead author Sara Mahdavi, a post-doctoral fellow at the school and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Nutritional Sciences.
Although the health benefits were evident among coffee drinkers, they were not repeated among women who reported drinking other caffeinated beverages such as tea and cola, Mahdavi reported.
