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
Good For Your Heart — Another Coffee Success Study
We’ve long known that coffee is good for your heart. Coffee is loaded with antioxidants — those molecules that help stop the chain reactions of free radicals in your system. And by stopping those chain reactions, a person is much better off in defense against cancer and heart disease. Now there is a new study which shows that regular coffee consumption aids those people with heart rhythm problems. The study was led by Dr. Arthur Klatsky, a senior consultant at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in California, and looked at the rate of hospitalization of more than 130,000 people. The...
Coffee Drinking May Lower Stroke Risk
There is a new study which shows that regular coffee drinking appears to reduce the risk of stroke. According to Ed Edelson, writing for HealthDay Reporter, a study led by Yangmei Li of the University of Cambridge in England showed a 27 percent lower risk of stroke among people who indicated they regularly drank coffee versus those who said they never drank coffee. The study followed 23,000 men and women for a 12 year period, and found the association of reduced risk of stroke was consistent across subgroups of sex, age, social class, educational level, smoking status, alcohol drinking, tea drinking, and physical...
“An Unashamed Defense of Coffee” – Great Read!
Coffee is certainly a great deal more than caffeine. Coffee is loaded with bioactive chemical compounds that help prevent a host of ailments! The green coffee bean has the greatest concentration of antioxidants of anything grown! Coffee does not stain your teeth! Coffee is healthier than colas, tea, chocolate, wine, and spirits! Despite all that, coffee has received a bad rap over the centuries….even though today over 1 billion people started their day with coffee. Two Ph.D.s have spent their careers in the study of coffee and its effects on human pleasure and human health, and have written a wonderful...
Antioxidants and Coffee
Much has been written about antioxidants, and how a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help ward off heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and other illnesses. Antioxidants are derived from plants, and are those molecules that are capable of slowing or preventing the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals that start chain reactions that can damage cells. Antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by removing the free radicals. Among fruit and vegetables, the best sources include blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, beans, artichoke hearts, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, and in spices, cinnamon, oregano and cloves. Research indicates it is...
Start the Year Off With Coffee!
As we start a new year, many of us are questioning our diets, making resolutions, exercising more, and just taking stock of what’s good or not good for our bodies. Our resolution is this: to better use this Blog to further the understanding of coffee, and at the same time promote what we believe is the most healthful, all-natural coffee available. 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...
