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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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As any caffeine “addict” will tell you, getting off the substance for even a short period of time may result in a number of unpleasant symptoms, including headaches, fatigue, feeling less energetic and alert, as well as difficulties in concentrating. By combining readings from electroencephalograms, elect... |
4 May 2009
18:01 GMT |
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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 |
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Coffee must arguably be one of the most popular hot beverages on earth. Since it comes in so many recipes and with so many flavors, chances of someone not finding just the type that suits them are slim to none, it has been said. Coffee-making is now an art and, as such, few are those of us who still enjoy their daily... |
26 March 2009
06:15 GMT |
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Designing the ultimate coating for plasma and LCD TVs is not exactly easy, but the performance of the entire device thoroughly depends on the ultra-thin layer of material. The next generation of television sets may, however, be made out of something totally out of the ordinary, namely coffee. The idea has come to res... |
2 March 2009
10:26 GMT |
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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 |
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Coffee is one of the most widespread beverages on earth, coming in thousands of variations and combinations. In the past, it was linked to heart disease and blood pressure issues, but also believed to protect against gout, liver disease and memory loss. Now, a recent study comes to show that three cups of coffee a da... |
19 February 2009
16:21 GMT |
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For older generations, coffee is the very engine of existence. It helps us get up in the morning, and provides us with the necessary energy to go through a hard day's work. It's scientifically proven that the wonderful beverage brings people together, and helps strengthen social networks. It also has a numb... |
6 February 2009
11:13 GMT |
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People at midlife who drink coffee and tea responsibly may be at a lower risk of developing dementia in their senior years, a new prolonged scientific study, conducted in Finland, showed. Some of the test subjects in the new research had been under survey for more than 37 years, starting 1972, so experts from the Uni... |
15 January 2009
10:02 GMT |
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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 |
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Healthy habits are what makes our life as beautiful as it is, it has been claimed. Health experts and nutritionists, for instance, say that it’s the healthy eating habits that we have that make the restrictions we impose upon ourselves easier to bear. On this note, the morning cup of coffee many of us can&rsquo... |
13 January 2009
16:41 GMT |
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A new scientific study has concluded that caffeine, the active ingredient in coffee, has a faster and stronger effect on men than on women. Unlike previous studies that analyzed the effects of the beverage, which were conducted with abnormally high quantities of the stuff, the new research was based on the normal amo... |
28 December 2008
03:11 GMT |
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What would you say if you walked on the street and the air smelled like coffee instead of burned gas? Although the very few people who can't stand the smell of coffee (assuming there are any) may be disappointed, for those who aim at having waste turned into fuel, good news is here: coffee and biofuels just beca... |
16 December 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Drinking in zero gravity is quite a difficult and often messy job, which is not really good news for astronauts. This came even harder for astronaut Don Pettit, currently aboard the International Space Station, who is very fond of coffee. Luckily, his creativity and know how have served him just right once ... |
25 November 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Brewing a cup of coffee is no rocket science and pretty much everybody can come up with a decent drink. Yet it looks like for some guys, having coffee brewed the traditional way is too simple a thing; and the coffee machines go in the same category also, because this could be the only reason for adding a no-nonsense ... |
24 November 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Hot coffee apparently has more power than anyone would have ever suspected, concludes a new Yale study that focused on how test subjects reacted to each other when holding either warm or iced mugs of the wonderful beverage. Their behavior towards the people they were assessing varied substantially, according to ... |
24 October 2008
03:35 GMT |
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There is a series of physical phenomena issues which prevents astronauts from having a hot drink in the cold solitude of outer space. Recently, this problem has been addressed by two Costa Rican students who have successfully built a coffee maker that would overcome the cruel restrictions of outer space.Perhaps the t... |
17 October 2008
08:31 GMT |
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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 ... |
25 May 2008
05:15 GMT |
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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 deal providing customers with free Wi-Fi at the Starbucks store, along with an artist's conce... |
16 May 2008
16:26 GMT |
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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 control the annoyance... |
7 April 2008
02:54 GMT |
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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 q... |
12 February 2008
03:52 GMT |
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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 p... |
25 January 2008
05:18 GMT |
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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 |
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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 r... |
8 December 2007
07:08 GMT |
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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 |
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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 k... |
21 November 2007
14:36 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 sp... |
5 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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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 |
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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 fol... |
22 August 2007
02:40 GMT |
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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 |
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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 ... |
8 August 2007
02:39 GMT |
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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. ... |
1 August 2007
14:31 GMT |
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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 p... |
1 August 2007
14:16 GMT |
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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... |
31 July 2007
10:06 GMT |
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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 e... |
19 June 2007
06:52 GMT |
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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 - ex... |
15 June 2007
10:51 GMT |
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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 heal... |
25 May 2007
06:22 GMT |
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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!),... |
26 April 2007
11:01 GMT |
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11 April 2007
10:41 GMT |
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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 mor... |
14 March 2007
04:05 GMT |
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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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