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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 […]
Here’s a snippet from the July/August Issue of Health Magazine: the Head-to-Toe Guide to Natural Health:
Eyes: Keep your vision sharp with bilberries, which are packed with antioxidants—even more than their blueberry cousins.
Sinuses: Research shows that oils from dill, bishop’s weed, and cumin work as well as or better than antibiotics against eight types of common […]
Did you know that residents of Finland drink more coffee per capita than the Japanese, Americans, Italians, and other Europeans? And it also appears that among a group of Finns surveyed between 1972 to 2006, the higher the coffee consumption, the lower the risk of primary liver cancer.
The researchers noted a significant inverse association between […]
Aside from possibly protecting you from diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and alcoholic cirrhosis, a recent survey study suggests that women coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease or cancer.
Women consuming two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk of death from heart disease during the […]
According to an analysis of data from 13 previous studies, coffee and tea may be protective against kidney cancer. These findings were published recently in the International Journal of Cancer.
Across the studies, people who drank three or more cups of coffee a day were 16 percent less likely to develop kidney cancer than those who […]
I’ve already confessed what a coffee-junkie I am. A few years ago, I might have felt bad, even guilty about it, but with more and more studies showing the health benefits of caffeine, I actually start to think I’m doing myself good with this little addiction. I still think that like with anything else, moderation […]
Here’s something for you athletes or sports buffs out there: Drinking about 2 cups of coffee a day can reduce your post-workout muscle pain by up to almost half!
One and two days after an exercise session that caused moderate muscle soreness, the volunteers took either caffeine or a placebo and performed two different quadriceps (thigh) […]
During the last few days, one of the top resolutions I’ve read and heard people make is that they are going to try and eat healthier this year. The way they said it, they sounded like it was some sort of death sentence!
Well, no need to mope, guys! If you’ve been reading this blog, […]
A study published in the November issue of Diabetes Care further supports previous findings that there is “a striking protective effect of caffeinated coffee was found to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 60%.
After adjusting for other known diabetes risk factors, the researchers concluded that both past and current […]
I’ve entered a previous entry on genetically engineered tomatoes to Mendel’s Garden, a blogging carnival about everything genetics-related, hosted this time at Evolgen. There’s one other food entry I’ve spotted: DNA Talk marvels on the medicinal benefits of coffee, pretty much what I have enumerated in a previous entry.
What role genetics play there, however, […]
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