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How switching to decaf could save your sight: Drinking three cups of coffee a day linked with vision loss and blindness

Coffee increases the risk of eye condition glaucoma
Those with a family history most at risk
No association found with tea, coffee or cola

Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day may increase the risk of vision loss and blindness, according to American research.

Even moderate amounts of the drink make developing the devastating eye condition glaucoma more likely.

The study, published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, suggests coffee lovers [...]

Why you shouldn’t even bother trying to remember last night: Drunken blackouts are caused by alcohol switching off brain’s memory function

Alcohol ‘switches’ off brain region that encodes memory – and some are more vulnerable than others
Not necessarily because people drink more

Waking up after a heavy night’s drinking and being fuzzy about what happened is an experience many people have had.

It’s often said that alcohol killing off brain cells is behind the blackouts, but according to a study what’s actually happening is that booze is preventing new memories being recorded in [...]