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
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...
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...
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...
Coffee Versus Sodas: No Contest When it Comes to Our Health
Two of America’s favorite drinks are world’s apart when it comes to how they affect our health, and it is interesting how one helps reduce the risks of developing certain diseases and ailments, and the other helps promote a host of problems. Thousands of studies have been made of coffee over the past few decades. Some of these studies have shown that coffee consumption can help reduce the risk of developing heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes, gout, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, certain forms of cancer, among other ailments. Coffee has zero calories, and has shown to increase levels of HDL, or good cholesterol. Beyond that, coffee has naturally occurring vitamins and minerals,...
Athletes Get an Extra Edge From Caffeine
Athletes who drink a lot of coffee can improve their performance by as much as six percent. Results from a new study from researchers at Coventry University in central England were due to be reported this week at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology in Prague. Lead researcher Dr. Rob James indicated “A small increase in performance via caffeine could mean the difference between a gold medal in the Olympics and an also-ran.” The World Anti-Doping Agency is the keeper of what athletes can and can’t injest, and caffeine has been off the banned list since 2004. Seems like...
