The Truth About Coffee
	When it comes to its health benefits, coffee is one of the most controversial beverages out there. So much has been said about it over the years, so many people have argued pro or against it that ultimately we're all rather confused about which side to take. That’s why we’re going to talk a little bit about coffee, its beneficial and not so beneficial properties, so that we can all ultimately know where we stand before we decide wheth ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2008, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Order Your Coffee on the iPhone, Die Alone
	Some of you may remember Apple once wrote a little "letter" to the U.S. Patent Office telling them they had this nifty idea of letting people order their Starbucks coffee on their iPhone / iPod. A recent Apple-Starbucks ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2008, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bats and Cheaper Coffee
	They are associated with the dark and with the myth of vampires (even if only 3 tropical American species consume blood, out of about 1,100 species). In fact, we know that most bats appreciate insects more than other foods. And two new researches published in the Science journal show us why bats cont ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 02:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Machine Tells You the Taste of Your Coffee!
	Machines perform with no mistake. A human nose may not work well when influenced by other scents, or when it has adapted to a specific scent. And here comes this SF technique: a Swiss coffee tasting machine that turns human tasters obsolete. New "electronic tasters" like the new coffee-tasting machine could work as quality control devices for monitoring food processing. The new machine was developed by a team led by ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does Coffee Save Female Fertility?
	Is coffee good or bad for your health? Researches have shown that coffee is good against Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, gallstones, diabetes, memory loss, eye spasm, constipation, skin cancer, muscle pain, gout and bad mood. Other scientists signal the harmful effect of coffee on heart (causing palpitations), sleep, pregnancy (from low birth weight and prematurity to miscarriage), and mood (causing anxiety). Now, a ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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. But this is for sure: pregnancy and coffee do not match. Many previous researches showed that too much coffee provoked low birth ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Country of Queen of Sheba
	In a historical aspect, the “Bible� talks about the Queen of Sheba (named Makeda in the Ethiopian tradition and Bilqis in the Islamic tradition), who traveled to Jerusalem to behold the fame of the wise King Solomon, with a very large equipage of camels carrying large amounts of spices, gold and gemstones. Many researchers believe Sheba was located where Yemen is today. Unlike the typical image of Arabia, of sand dunes, camels and c ... [read more >>]
	08 December 2007, 07:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 coffee tree, an ever-green tall bush with glossy green dark leaves living in warm climates. Its flowers are white, beautiful, ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

14 Reasons Why You Should Drink More Water
	Over 70 % of the adult body is made of water. Our body cannot function without water: a human will die faster of thirst than of hunger. A 68 kg person has about 40 liters of water in the body. 23-26% is found inside the cells, 7,5 % in the space between the cells and up to 4 liters in the blood. This volume must be kept constant. Food does not deliver enough moisture; doctors say we should drink two liters of water daily, since our body el ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 sleep more. The caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms accumulating overnight, but does not make people more alert. Only people who do not regu ... [read more >>]
	10 November 2007, 07:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 35 %, according to a new research published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention. Subjects drinking over ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Coffee Against HIV
	While reading this article, you may be sipping your daily cup of coffee… but have you ever wondered where did coffee emerge from? Well, there’s an easy answer to this question: in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia. Now a US-based charity is using this ‘coffee mania’ in the fight against HIV infection and spreading; in Ethiopia, the country that invented the product it got us all addicted to, they’re testing coffee-scented condoms. Even if b ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 caffeine and acetaminophen against headaches, menstrual discomfort, arthritis and other issues. Paracetamol is also[ADMA ... [read more >>]
	27 September 2007, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Is Coffee Bitter?
	Some pour a bit of milk. Others add sugar – which is quite unhealthy – to 'improve' the taste of their coffee. But now researchers have determined why dark-roasted coffee is so bitter, this being a first step towards producing a natural milder type of coffee. The research team made chemical analyses and follow-up tests with the help of some people trained to determine coffee bitterness, the chemicals that make coffee bitter and h ... [read more >>]
	22 August 2007, 02:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 chemical that makes you naturally drowsy, increasing concentration and reaction speed, and constricting the brain's bloo ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Coffee Helps Women's Memory
	Now we know why women spend so much time chatting while having a cup of coffee: caffeine appears to protect thinking skills in older women. A new research showed that women aged 65 and older who consumed over three cups of coffee (or the same caffeine amount in tea) daily scored better over time on memory tests than women who drank one cup or less of coffee/tea daily. These findings persisted even after researchers took i ... [read more >>]
	08 August 2007, 02:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Urban Myths about Foods
	Urban myths have some common points: they are absurd, and the more absurd they are, the more widespread they get. Myths about food make some people pay attention rather to what an illiterate has to say than a doctor in nutrition. However, in many cases, these myths manage to confuse and mystify even educated people. Here are 8 busted myths: 1. Drinking too much coffee can indeed induce sluggishness, unnatural and unhealthy heart beats, ... [read more >>]
	01 August 2007, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Coffee, Found to Be the Secret of a Healthy Skin
	Among the multitude of studies revealing the good and the bad effects of caffeine, here comes a Rutgers study showing that coffee and exercising are the secret of a healthy skin. Regular exercise is regarded as a healthy lifestyle for many people, but coffee consume is not. However, apparently the combination could prevent sun-induced skin cancer. In the US, sunlight-induced skin cancer is the main cancer type, with over 1 mi ... [read more >>]
	01 August 2007, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Starbucks? Second Cup? New World Coffee? They're So Yesterday's News With Siemens' In-Wall Coffee Brewer
	Coffee has been one of the most famous and most popular beverages around the world for hundreds of years and has now reached a level of refinement and multitude of varieties never before seen. However, it's quite clear that the best coffee is served in specialized coffee shops, as the home-brewed versions of the beverage rarely come even close to those served in the aforementioned public places. Or do they now? Apparently, things ... [read more >>]
	31 July 2007, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Coffee Fights Against Blindness
	In the middle of the debate of whether coffee is good or bad for our health, Italian researchers come with a pro argument. They say people who drink coffee are less prone to developing blepharospasm, an involuntary eye spasm which makes patients blink uncontrollably, which may become a severe vision impairment. The effect is linked to coffee intake: one to two cups daily proved to induce the desired effect. The age for the on ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2007, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Does Coffee Increase Blood Cholesterol Levels?
	Scientists are working hard to demonstrate the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, such as easing muscular pain or gout symptoms, or increasing sex drive. Others show that its effects are rather bogus, like the so-called energizing effect. But others get back to the subject, showing and – even more – explaining, coffee's harmful health effects. "Cafestol, a compound found in coffee, elevates choles ... [read more >>]
	15 June 2007, 10:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Coffee, More Meat
	You may not be able to leave home without your daily morning coffee and it is estimated that in US over 50 % of the population consumes, on average, 2 cups daily. That's why this beverage is widely investigated for its health effects, from breast cancer to heart disease. Still, coffee was found to have some health effects, from lowering insulin and uric acid levels to easing muscle pain on short term. Based on this discoveries, co ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2007, 06:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Get The Perfect Coffee Every Time - The Mind-Reading Coffee Machine
	Imagine coming home from work or school, or even in the morning, when everything's a rush, and craving for a good coffee. You step through the door and the beautiful smell is tickling your nose and making your mouth water... No, the lady's not home, the mistress is on the other side of town (just kidding!), so would made that special coffee just the way you like it, and in the nick of time? It's the intelligent coffee ... [read more >>]
	26 April 2007, 11:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wowffee: Now Windows Vista Can Actually Leave the Wow Taste in Your Mouth!
	You don't need a product key; not even a crack. You don't need to activate it and you don't need to validate it with Windows Genuine Advantage. It is designed to integrate seamlessly into your system. No more reboots, blue screens, errors and malware. No more vulnerabilities, exploits or patches. Just Wowffee... How do you take your coffee? Black? With sugar and milk? How about with Windows Vista? Don't you ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2007, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Another Advantage of Coffee: Fibers
	Can you feel any relief before you drink your daily cup of coffee? Well, that's not only because of craving for caffeine, but also because coffee helps you ...poop. A new research found that brewed coffee contains soluble dietary fibers, which help the body absorb vital nutrients, keep a lid on cholesterol and more importantly, whose lack in the alimentation provokes constipation. The cellulose fibers are abundant in cereals ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2007, 04:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 does not make people more alert than they normally are. The research revealed that only people who do not regularly ... [read more >>]
	07 March 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia