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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

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 k...

21 November 2007
14:36 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

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 sp...

5 November 2007
14:06 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

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 fol...

22 August 2007
02:40 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

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 ...

8 August 2007
02:39 GMT

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. ...

1 August 2007
14:31 GMT

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 p...

1 August 2007
14:16 GMT

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...

31 July 2007
10:06 GMT

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 e...

19 June 2007
06:52 GMT

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 - ex...

15 June 2007
10:51 GMT

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 heal...

25 May 2007
06:22 GMT

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!),...

26 April 2007
11:01 GMT

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 ...

11 April 2007
10:41 GMT

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 mor...

14 March 2007
04:05 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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