Blogging has been sparse lately, my only excuse being that it becomes tedious to repeat oneself, and there are only so many ways of saying that a certain very stable genius is out of his mind. So this post has nothing to do with the genius, and everything to do with me.
I have been on this earth for 3 score and 9 plus years, and in all that time only about one tablespoon of coffee has passed through the portals of my mouth. Not for me that detestable beverage. I am a tea person, and have for years maintained the superiority of this all American (it was a Tea Party after all) beverage over its overhyped competitor. Turns out that I have science on my side:
A recent study led by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) revealed that regular tea drinkers have better organised brain regions — and this is associated with healthy cognitive function — compared to non-tea drinkers. The research team made this discovery after examining neuroimaging data of 36 older adults.
“Our results offer the first evidence of positive contribution of tea drinking to brain structure, and suggest that drinking tea regularly has a protective effect against age-related decline in brain organisation,” explained team leader Assistant Professor Feng Lei, who is from the Department of Psychological Medicine at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
The research was carried out together with collaborators from the University of Essex and University of Cambridge, and the findings were published in scientific journal Aging on 14 June 2019.
Anyone who has read this blog would have to agree that I have tons of well organized brain regions. You might even say I’m a stable….wait…forget that.
Back to science. I will fervently believe this study is valid even if it turns out it was bought and paid for by the folks at Lipton (whose detestable tea I will not drink). As further proof of tea’s superiority, I submit the fact that Barack Obama is also a tea drinker (I have this on Pete Sousa’s authority, who I follow on Instagram.) Given his track record, we must assume that a certain individual to whom I have referred previously has never touched the stuff, which, in any event, even I would agree does not go well with McDonald’s cheeseburgers.
CAVEAT: Some might say that a sample of 36 people might be a bit too small to form the basis for such a conclusion. But those people would be wrong, for after all, the New York Times can tell you what “swing voters” think about impeachment by sampling only six die hard Trumpers, which proves that 36 randomly selected people is a massive sample.
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