Coffee Perks for Women?
A small study indicates that females get a perk-up from drinking coffee whether they are habitual drinkers or “caffeine-naïve”.
“The take-home message for women is that whether you are hooked on caffeine or not, if you need a boost coffee improves your mental alertness and can have a calming affect on your heart rate,” said Michael Kennedy, a professor in exercise physiology in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, lead author on the study. “In addition, a large coffee has more than enough caffeine to see these changes.”
Kennedy and a team of students looked at how 10 women who drank caffeine daily and 10 caffeine-naïve women who drank less than two servings per week were affected by measuring heart rate, blood pressure, alertness and the ability to perform a tough mental test after consuming a 350-millilitre-sized coffee. The study subjects were aged 18 to 37.
Cool. Except that I can’t get over the fact that these conclusions were based from a grand total of 20 test subjects. Hardly convincing, eh?
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2 opinions for Coffee Perks for Women?
Annemarie - the healing earht angel
Sep 12, 2008 at 12:46 pm
As far as I have read, coffee is an excellent choice for an enema. It pulls out toxins and cleans out the bowel but there might be better ways to get a caffeine brain rush, i.e. green tea. I agree that the study was too inconclusive, but thanks for being an Earth Angel and sharing.
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Sep 13, 2008 at 1:22 pm
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