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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Caffeine Reduces Uterine Cancer Risk
Uterine, or endometrial, cancer is the most common cancer afflicting women’s reproductive organs. In the United States in 2009, according to the American Cancer Society, over 40,000 new cases of uterine cancer were diagnosed and the disease caused nearly 8,000 deaths. … Continue reading
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Caffeine Reduces Skin Cancer Risk — and Exercise Helps!
In the past few years, a number of studies, including several conducted at Rutgers University by Dr. Allan H. Conney, director of Rutgers University’s Cullman Laboratory, have strongly indicated that caffeine, whether ingested or applied topically, can reduce the risk of … Continue reading
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Banning Four Loko: Caffeine Paranoia Run Wild!
Caffeine has been damned for causing mental and physical problems. Maybe there is one serious mental disorder that it does cause – caffeine paranoia, the irrational, intense fear of caffeine. Four Loko, a modestly potent malt alcoholic drink with a bit … Continue reading
Caffeine Protects the Brain from Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
There are no more dreaded misfortunes of increasing age than the onset of the debilitating brain diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and senile dementia. What could caffeine have to do with these life-destroying, intractable conditons? It’s simple: Caffeine is a tonic for … Continue reading
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Hangover Remedy: Caffeine and Ibuprophen
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia recently discovered that a mixture of caffeine and ibuprophen (Advil) is an excellent remedy for the hangover blues. Their study, reported in the January 11, 2011 issue of New Scientist, confirmed previous studies at … Continue reading
Pregnancy and Caffeine: They Don’t Mix
No questions about caffeine’s effect on health are more important than if and in what way caffeine affects fetal development. Unfortunately, the issue about caffeine and pregnancy has been repeatedly beset with confusion, distortion, misinformation, and outright negligent inaccuracy. The good … Continue reading
