Coffee Helping Research for Parkinson’s Disease

For new medications for the treatment of Parkinson’s to Dementia, scientists are looking to coffee! Caffeine, the world’s most widely used drug, can do more than just wake people up. Various studies have linked caffeine to improvements in memory and protection against the destruction of brain cells. One study found...

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Why Do People on the Greek Island of Ikaria Live So Long?

Ikaria is a Greek Island well to the southesast of Athens.  Many people on that island live past the age of 90!  Why is that so? Well…it could be the coffee! The European Society of Cardiology released a report August 31 about a study done by a team from the University of Athens indicating how one to two cups of coffee per day could be good for your arteries, specifically aortic distensibility.   Distensiblity is a measure of the elasticity of the arteries, and low levels have been associated with athereosclerosis and a reliable predictor of cardiovascular events. The island of Ikaria was chosen because of the known above average...

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Work Coffee Into Your Workout!

Coffee can help workouts by delaying muscle fatigue and keeping you focused and energetic. A US News and World Report article from last month indicated a rough estimate of caffeine before exercising should be between 0.5 and 1.4 milligrams per one pound of body weight.  Given the typical 20 milligrams of caffeine in an ounce of coffee and doing the math, for say a 150 pound person, that’s roughly one to two 8 ounce cups.  If you’re new to drinking coffee, you may want to drink less before exercising, and if you drink a lot of coffee, increase the amount. If...

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Which is Healthier…Coffee or Green Tea?

Coffee and tea are both considered ”healthy” foods, and certainly much better for us than some of the other liquids we could be consuming.  But let’s take a look at some of the comparisons when it comes to their health properties.  First off, the comparison is made to “green tea” as opposed to “black tea”, because of those two, green tea is made from steaming the leaves in contrast to black tea where the leaves are fermented.  Steaming preserves more of the polyphenols, or antioxidants. Relative to antioxidants, green tea has greater degreee of antioxidants than does coffee.  However, when looking at the per capita consumption of...

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Coffee May Protect Against Head and Neck Cancers

More good news for coffee drinkers! According to a recent journal publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, regular coffee drinkers had a 39 percent decreased risk of oral cavity and pharynx cancers combined.  The pharynx is the part of the neck and throat that is immediately behind the mouth and nasal cavity. Regular coffee drinkers were defined as having consumed an estimated four or more cups of coffee per day.  No similar findings were reported for decaf coffee or teas. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Utah, and actually came from pooled-analysis of nine studies collected...

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Drinking Coffee Helps Cut the Risk of Developing Uterine Cancer

This is from a recent study released by the Mayo clinic.  The study covered 20,000 women and found that those who consumed more than two and a half cups of coffee per day were less likely to develop endometrial cancer than those women who consumed no coffee. The study did not find the same protective effects from other forms of food containing caffeine such as tea or chocolate.

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