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Google Gets Ready to Upgrade Its Search Engine with Caffeine

Google is finally getting ready to take the big step and introduce the new Caffeine search back end to a wider audience with the goal of completely replacing the current architecture it uses. Revealed back in August, the project has been in testing in a dedicated sandbox since then, but the page is now replaced with ...

10 November 2009
04:03 GMT

Night-Shift Workers and Caffeine: The Face-Off

As if working the night shift wasn't difficult and demanding enough, scientists have recently determined that ingesting caffeine can also have a negative effect on people's bodies during the day. That is to say, if workers drink coffee or energy drinks as they work, they may be cutting the branch from under...

4 November 2009
03:41 GMT

Limit Consumption of Energy Drinks, Experts Warn

Energy drinks have become a must have for many of us, especially on a slow day at the office or before heading to the gym. However, experts cited by Shape magazine warn that many of the effects of the ingredients that go into making them are not fully documented yet, for which reason an all-natural remedy for tiredne...

5 October 2009
16:11 GMT

Caffeine Can Inflict or Cure Headaches

Norwegian researchers have recently just finished their long-term, cross-sectional study focused on the effects of caffeine on migraines, and results are mixed. Though the investigation was conducted on more than 50,000 people, a clear conclusion could not be drawn. The experts reveal that caffeine has the interestin...

17 August 2009
01:30 GMT

Google's Caffeine Temporarily Down

Just two days after Google launched its new indexing and search engine infrastructure, dubbed Caffeine, in testing to curious individuals the site is now down until at least later today. Google Engineer Matt Cutts made the announcement via the latest fashion in corporate communication, Twitter, blaming upgrades to a ...

13 August 2009
10:28 GMT

Caffeine and Teens Make for Lousy Combination

A new scientific research has determined that an increasingly larger number of teens stay up until the wee hours of the morning, “fueled” by coffee and energy drinks, and spend their time chatting online, playing games, surfing the Internet, or text-messaging to one another. Scientists from the Drexel Uni...

27 July 2009
09:57 GMT

Using Coffee to Combat Alzheimer's Memory Impairment

Experts from the University of South Florida, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center have determined in a new study conducted on unsuspecting mice that the memory impairment brought forth by Alzheimer's disease can be counteracted with the equivalent of five cups of coffee per day. In their experiments, the re...

6 July 2009
15:41 GMT

Less Sleep Is a Factor in Teen Obesity

The spread of the obesity pandemic in the young population around the world is very troublesome, researchers say, especially because no one really knows what's causing it. Among the suggestions, too much sedentary time, as in watching TV and using computers all day long, coupled with an inappropriate diet, high ...

9 June 2009
10:02 GMT

Experts Use Sweeteners to Track Swiss Waters

Switzerland is famous around the world for its large number of pristine lakes, which look as if they have never been touched by human hands. Even the landscape around is so beautiful that it makes anyone visiting the regions assume that the water in the lakes couldn't be anything else than 100 percent pure stuff...

13 May 2009
08:44 GMT

Exercising Is Easier with a Cup of Coffee

While high amounts of coffee are never good for you, a new research seems to indicate that if you drink a cup right before going to the gym or getting on a bicycle, then the tasty beverage might aid your practice by reducing some of the pain associated with intense physical effort. The paper also says that this works...

1 April 2009
03:48 GMT

A Coffee a Day Keeps Skin Cancer Away

Other than the fact that the wonderful beverage helps many of us get up in the morning, and then brings us together, coffee has been recently proven to act against skin cancer, by suppressing one of its main causes, namely cells that have been affected by ultraviolet light. This type of light can cause severe damage ...

26 February 2009
10:45 GMT

Caffeine Associated with Hallucinations

High caffeine intake has been recently linked to an increased number of alarming reports from avid users, who say that they experience hallucinations regarding voices or things that are not really there. Those who consume more than the equivalent of seven cups of instant coffee per day usually get their caffeine from...

14 January 2009
09:37 GMT

Coffee Doubles the Risk of Miscarriage!

There's no breakfast without coffee, and coffee is clearly the world's most important legal trade crop. Some researchers are trying to highlight the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, whereas others look at it as the devil's beverage. There are voices saying that it's rather a bogus...

21 January 2008
04:22 GMT

Want Sexy Thighs? Coffee Is the Secret!

Now it's clear why women crave for coffee: it's about nice legs. For most westerners, there's no breakfast without coffee, and coffee is clearly the world's most important trade crop. Some researchers are trying to show the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, whereas others look at ...

7 December 2007
06:27 GMT

How Is Coffee Made?

The Finns call it their national drink; for Italians, making it is an art, and in most western countries, there's no breakfast without coffee. It is the second preferred beverage in the world after tea and about one third of the humans drink it: coffee. Coffee is got through the roasting of the seeds of the coff...

27 November 2007
02:56 GMT

Top 15 Effects That Coffee Has on Your Health

Some are trying hard to show the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, others see it as the devil's beverage. Others say it's rather a bogus. Read on and decide for yourself who's right!1. Some say that the energy boosting effect of the morning coffee is only in your mind and you should sle...

10 November 2007
07:09 GMT

Want Healthy Skin? Drink Coffee!

Today we spend more holidays in sunny exotic places, but this increased exposure to sun can cause skin cancer, especially amongst light-skinned racial types, due to ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation. And here comes the controversial and at the same time praised coffee. Coffee consume could cut the risk of skin cancer by ...

9 November 2007
14:06 GMT

Energy Drinks Can Be Dangerous for the Heart

Energy drinks are advertised as if they were the ones pulling the weights when you go to the gym. Some of their chemicals can even induce the contrary effect of what you really want. And a new research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2007 and carried at the Wayne State Universit...

7 November 2007
03:44 GMT

8 Tips to Have a Good Night's Sleep

1. Sleep in a comfortable bed, in quiet, dark rooms and places where you feel secure. 2. Don't snooze in the evening, even if the nigh before that you haven't slept well. Try to stay awake and go to the sleep not earlier than 8 o'clock. Maintain the same sleeping hours, as this way your body will keep ...

1 November 2007
11:53 GMT

10 Tips for a Better Memory

You may forget where you have parked the car, what you did yesterday and the birthday of your best buddy. How many times you were trying to prepare yourself for an exam and you couldn't learn anything? If you're young, they say you're in love or your mind is wandering; with the age they say you've...

11 October 2007
03:45 GMT

Coffee + Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) = Death

Coffee and flue do not match. Mixing large amounts of caffeine with acetaminophen (paracetamol), one of the most common painkillers used in the US and Europe could harm your liver, as found by a new research. The danger does not come only from caffeinated dinks combined with the drug, but also from medications mixing...

27 September 2007
06:00 GMT

Which Soft Drink Contains Most Caffeine?

Have you ever looked for an energy boost in a smoky disco club? The solution is not in cola, but rather in citrus-flavored sodas. These are the results of a new research that also discovered that the amount of caffeine varies significantly from brand to brand and also within the products of the same brand.The authors...

12 September 2007
05:27 GMT

How Much Coffee Makes You Drop Dead?

There are many studies investigating the effects of coffee, and its active ingredient, the alkaloid called caffeine, on the organism. Coffee has been found to enhance memory, reduce post-gym muscle pains, fight skin cancer, blepharospasm and gout, at the same time boosting sex drive. Caffeine blocks adenosine, a chem...

14 August 2007
14:06 GMT

Does Red Bull Give You Wings?

If we were to believe the ad, then we'd most certainly have wings by now. You'll do more workout sessions than Schwarzenegger did when he was young and hold up for hours in the gym. Is it really like that? In the end, the effects are given by what the drink contains. Glucose. Most energy drinks contain this...

18 July 2007
14:21 GMT

Coffee Has No Energizing Effect on You

Craving for the morning coffee to boost up your energy?That may be only in your mind and you should sleep more, as a new research at University of Bristol pointed out that morning latte or espresso may not be the so-much-appreciated pick-me-up. The caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms which accumulate overnight, but do...

7 March 2007
05:36 GMT


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