6 Make-Ahead Meals That Are Ready When You Are
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: produce season! Literally everything is ripe for the picking, which means that this is the optimal time to up your fruit and vegetable game. This perfectly coincides with our tendency to crave lighter and more refreshing fare during warmer weather without spending...
From the Coffee Shop
Include Coffee in Your New Year’s Resolutions!
Since you’re reading this Blog, there is probably a 100% chance that you are already a coffee drinker. That’s great, because there have many studies over the past few decades that point out that coffee in moderation is not only ok to consume – it’s actually a health food! Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, gout are just some of the maladies that coffee helps prevent. If you’ve been following HealthWise Gourmet Coffees, you likely know that HealthWise considers its coffees the most healthful of all coffees. No single food provides all the nutrients your body needs to remain...
Do You Take Sugar With Your Coffee? Good News With The Bad
After countless studies indicating how healthful coffee is, now comes a study showing that coffee and sugar, when combined, help make the brain work more efficiently. Coffee coupled with sugar won’t make you smarter, just make what you have work better. A team of researchers at the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, found that caffeine and sugar work together to help certain brain areas work more efficiently and support attention and memory. In the study, 40 college-aged men and women were tested to determine how the area of the brain responsible for attention and memory responded when the participants consumed either a glass of...
Higher Coffee Consumption Could Lead to Lower Bone Density…or Maybe Not
According to a Swedish study released by a group of researchers in March, 2010, coffee consumption could lead to lower bone mineral density, or BMD. This seems to match up with another study released in 2008 regarding tests on dialysis patients which showed lower BMD from those patients who drank coffee. In the Swedish study, 359 men and 358 women aged 72 years were studied over a two year period. Among men who consumed four or more cups of coffee per day, there was a 4% decline in bone mineral density compared to those men who drank no coffee. This study...
Coffee Consumption Linked to Reduced Risk of Malignant Brain Tumors
The chance of developing brain cancer is fortunately very slight. According to a recent study, drinking coffee and tea perhaps can make the chance even more slight! A recently released study of over 500,000 European men and women pointed to a lessened risk of developing gliomas among coffee and tea drinkers. Gliomas are a group of brain tumors that result in 80 percent of malignant cancer of the brain. The study was led by Dominique Michaud from Brown University, Providence Rhode Island and Imperial College of London. There were 521,488 men and women who responded to a detailed questionnaire about the their diet and lifestyle habits. The study group was cancer-free in the beginning...
Today September 29 is “National Coffee Day”
Something so ubiquitous as coffee deserves its own day…and today’s the day! Legend has it that a goat herder by the name of Kaldi in Ethiopia first came across coffee in the 9th century when his goats ate the berries off a bush. The goats seemed more lively to Kaldi, so he chewed some himself, was excited by what ate, and then took some cherries to a Muslim holy man at the local monastery. The holy man discarded the cherries in the fireplace; the beans roasted; the delicious aroma spread; the roasted beans were recovered and were then dissolved in water. From there, the first cup of...
