Coffee: A great source of antioxidants and an effective mood enhancer

 

 

It’s an upside down world. We used to hear that coffee, a common splash to kick-start a person’s morning, was a guilty pleasure during best and a health immorality during worst. Fast-forward to today, and we now know that coffee is a health elixir of a top magnitude, charity insurance to a heart, obscure a risk of several forms of cancer and shortening a risk of Parkinson’s disease.

 

Research into a healthy properties of coffee shows that a daily decoction is a manly protecting antioxidant potion. Plants furnish antioxidants to strengthen their cells from beforehand drop from bearing to heat, light, air, dampness and time. In a tellurian body, many of these substances are biologically active, and they assistance to strengthen a cells as well. Recent scholarship suggests that these compounds might means gene changes, that capacitate a physique to demonstrate a possess protecting agents.

 

To simplify, antioxidants stop a “rusting” of cells in a body. Just as metals decay due to bearing to oxygen, cells in a physique also turn shop-worn by bearing to certain “reactive oxygen species” – or ROS. These deleterious agents are caused by environmental toxins, smoking, bad eating habits, metabolism, practice and other factors. When unchecked, these ROS minister to degenerative diseases. Oxidative repairs is compared with diabetes, arthritis, cancer, degenerative mind disorders, and countless aspects of aging and degeneration.

 

Coffee is super-concentrated with antioxidants and is generally high in one organisation of antioxidant compounds called flavonoids. The flavonoids have garnered substantial systematic seductiveness given of their profitable effects on tellurian health. In several biography studies they have been reported to possess antioxidant, antiviral, anti-allergic, anti-platelet, anti-inflammatory, and antitumor activities.

 

Coffee’s antioxidant compounds embody caffeic acid, caffeine, a chlorogenic acids, eugenol, gamma-tocopherol, isoeugenol, p-coumaric acid, scopoletin and tannic acid. In fact, coffee is a primary source of beneficial, protecting antioxidants in a American diet. Most Americans do not eat adequate antioxidant-rich uninformed fruits and vegetables, though they do splash coffee. The bottom line? Coffee protects your body. This is a good thing.

 

As a mood enhancer, coffee is one of a safest and fastest agents on earth. You splash a cup, and things change rapidly. Surely, this is a primary reason that people splash coffee in a initial place. Coffee’s biggest effects are exerted on a mind and mind, given coffee is a fresh awakener. As a smoothness complement for caffeine, coffee acts on a executive shaken system, sensitive a mind and all a vital nerves, and facilitating cognitive duty overall.

 

Coffee enhances a upsurge of blood in a mind and invigorates a mind. It enhances application and motivation, facilitates suspicion arrangement and concentration, and decreases mental fatigue. Every coffee drinker has gifted this multiple of effects. A morning showering will assuage grogginess, though a fresh crater of coffee will snap we to courtesy and ready we for whatever lies ahead.

 

In a investigate published in a Archives of Internal Medicine, Harvard researchers found that celebration caffeinated coffee lowered rates of basin among women. Women who drank dual to 3 cups of caffeinated coffee a day were 15 percent reduction expected to rise basin over a 10-year investigate period, compared with women who consumed one crater or reduction per day. Women who drank 4 or some-more cups of coffee a day had a 20 percent reduce risk of building depression. And what about decaf? Women who drank decaf did not knowledge reduced basin rates.

 

Within a daily dose operation of 300 milligrams of caffeine per day, or dual to 3 cups, coffee improves disastrous moods that start in a morning on waking, lifting a murky and murky clouds that can haze a mind on rising. Coffee, a many dainty and manly caffeine-bearing libation of all, increases ubiquitous complacency and feelings of pleasure – and increases certain mood overall. Coffee promotes an upbeat certain clarity of self, and a feeling of wellbeing.

 

Baron Ernst Von Bibra referred to coffee as a “pleasure drug.” He strike a spike right on a head. Simple, cheap, easy to prepare, straightforwardly accessible and really fast-acting, coffee creates we feel good.

 

Source: Health Medicine Network

Is the plastic used in Keurig K-Cups safe?

"Coffee needs enough time in hot water to create a full bodied taste."

There is no way in hell this is achieved with a little plastic silly K cup!

09-19-2012 The Verdict by: Anonymous I think it's obvious. If you value your health, stop using your K-cup brewer. If you value the planet, stop using your K-cup brewer. If you value your loved ones, help them to understand why they should stop using their K-cup brewers. Chalk it up to the simple fact that they were a bad idea to begin with. (And if you're still not convinced, check out Dr. Mercola's recent article on coffee, why it is imperative to drink only organic, and why it's better to use filters.) 10-24-2012 USA-FDA by: Anonymous I don't know how anyone can trust what the USA-FDA has to say or approve since they are very corrupt and have been paid off on several occasions. They will give their approval to the highest bidder. We need to care more about the health and welfare of the human race and stop the greed from clouding are judgement. 10-26-2012 upset stomach by: pes78 Is anyone else having upset stomach and gastric pain and bloating from the Keurig coffe maker? We purchased ours 6 weeks ago, in the meantime my stomach is horribly upset. I stopped drinking coffee for a week and my stomach was feeling better and then I went back to drinking a cup every morning and within a few days I am feeling bad again! Taken from coffedetective dot com

You can keep your fancy, pricey Keurig-type coffee-making contraptions

Coffee makers: A round-up of low-cost, minimalist-approved machines
 

You can keep your fancy, pricey Keurig-type coffee-making contraptions.

I take a minimalist approach to making my morning joe, with coffee-brewing techniques that are nonelectronic and, in some cases, nonmechanical.

It all started with the AeroPress, an inexpensive coffee-making kit that initially confused me -- it has a bewildering assortment of plastic tubes and other doodads -- but has now consumed me.

This is what I use to make my Latina sweetie's cafecito every morning.

Inspired by the AeroPress -- fittingly the creation of Silicon Valley entrepreneur Alan Adler -- I have been on a grand exploration of low-cost and dead-simple coffee-making apparatuses.

Four of my faves, including the AeroPress, are detailed here.

I am hardly alone in taking such a simplified approach to coffee brewing. Adler has spawned a movement with the AeroPress, which has its own coffee-making world championships.

And if you wander into a local coffee shop, there's a decent chance you'll see a barista using a nonelectronic, nonmechanical coffee-brewing method.

At Dogwood Coffee Co. at Calhoun Square in Minneapolis' Uptown neighborhood, for instance, one of the employees recently brewed my coffee in a Chemex, which is little more than a glass pitcher and a paper filter. I wanted to applaud -- cheer, even.

This roundup does not include any kind of French press, which I happen to loathe, mostly due to its too-messy cleanup.

 

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Comedians in cars getting coffee

Jerry Seinfled brings us this creative little twist on getting coffee.

Great videos. Fun stuff.

It's the beans baby

From liQuid heaVen’s ‘Didjaknow’ Department...

Worldwide, more than 26 million small coffee producers in more than 52 coffee producing countries rely on ‘the beans’ as their principal means of earning a living.

Next to oil baby it’s C*O*F*F*E*E*!

Fiat Offers In-Car Espresso Maker

Oh how those Italians love their espresso. And starting in October, they'll be able to have a doppio on the go in the new Fiat 500L.

At the presentation of the car to the global press in Turin this month, Fiat announced that the 500L will be "the first standard-production car in the world to offer a true espresso coffee machine."

The espresso maker will be an option in the new, bigger, four-door 500L that goes on sale in Italy in October and in the rest of Europe shortly after. (Think of the 500L as the Fiat 500 equivalent of the Mini Cooper Countryman -- there's even a vague similarity in silhouette.)

Fiat says the machine "is perfectly integrated in the car with a deck designed expressly by Fiat." The espresso machine, which comes with matching cups, is being made for Fiat by Italian coffee importer Lavazza -- known as "Italy's favorite coffee" -- and uses the company's "A Modo Mio" coffee pods. Lavazza also runs a Starbucks-like coffee chain.

The 500L, which is being built in Serbia, is due in the U.S. in 2013, but the espresso maker seems unlikely in the current climate of concern over driver distractions in cars. You could argue that it would do wonders for driver alertness.

The 500L may be oh so Italian, but Fiat said at the presentation that it also will have a very American touch that shows the company's Chrysler connection: A branded Beats Audio (Beats by Dr. Dre) premium sound system like that in the Chrysler 300.

Via:  USA Today

Oregon Is Caffeinating the Pacific Ocean

A new study from Portland State University researchers has shown that the Northwest's fame as a destination for coffee (and caffeinated techies) doesn't come without its environmental costs. Waters off the coast of Oregon were found to have elevated levels of caffeine, a drug that, in the Pacific Northwest, can only be traced to human activity.

The researchers expected to find higher levels near the outflow of waste treatment plants (where the remains of that Trenta end up, at the end of the day), but instead found the spikes of jolt juice lingering in relatively remote locations. Since humans are still the only possible source of the caffeine, the researchers are guessing that big rainstorms that overpower the sewer system and septic tanks in the state parks might be to blame for the findings. Yup, even Oregonian nature lovers are java junkies.

The amount of caffeine that counts as "elevated" is pretty minor, but the study cites some earlier research showing that even small amounts of caffeine can have an impact on marine life. Any fishermen out there noticing a little extra flop in their catch?

Source: BonAppetite