The Caffeine Cure for Jet Lag
After taking a long airline flight that crosses several time zones, most people experience difficulty adjusting to the schedule of mornings and nights at their point of arrival. When the traveler is “out of step” with the new time zone, he is said to suffer from “jet lag,” which is really a disturbance of the biological clock. […]
Coffee Tasting – Jamaican Blue Mountain
My friend Casey gave me a half pound of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans for Christmas, and today I performed a taste test against my favored Guatemalan Huehuetenango. I first prepared a small pot of the Huehuetenango, grinding the beans fairly finely and making enough for five six-ounce cups (three ten-ounce cups). I drank two […]
Coffee Faucet — Turn the Handle for a Cup!
An interesting innovation in the world of coffee preparation is a device called the Scanomat TopBrewer. It looks like a spigot that is mounted on a kitchen counter without a sink. Turn the handle and coffee is automatically prepared and delivered into your cup! The undercounter installation conceals a set of components that enable you to […]
Caffeine Dramatically Lowers Uterine Cancer Risk
New research, based on a long-term study of nearly 70,000 women, suggests that consuming the caffeine in four or more cups of coffee a day can cut a woman’s risk of endometrial cancer, a malignancy that forms in the lining of the uterus, by up to 25%. Nearly 50,000 women in the United States will contract endometrial cancer this year, […]
Caffeine Boosts Brain Power
In a new study of rat brains published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers report that a single dose of caffeine strengthens brain cell connections and causes a surge in electrical currents in a region of the brain called the “hippocampus.” The hippocampus is in part responsible for spatial memory and the way our minds change short-term memories […]
The Caffeine Triangle: Health, Performance, Mood
HEALTH Caffeine delivers an abundance of health benefits, such as a decreased risk of stroke, high blood pressure, heart attacks, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, senile dementia, clinical depression, Parkinson’s disease, cirrhosis of the liver, gallstones, head and neck cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer, liver cancer, skin cancer, and prostate cancer, and the pulmonary complications […]
Harvard Professor Invents Caffeine Inhaler
David Edwards, Ph.D., professor at Harvard University, has devised a new, streamlined way of consuming caffeine. It’s called Aeroshot Pure Energy and is a slim, pocket-sized tube that works something like an asthma inhaler. Puff gently, and the tube releases a lime-flavored light powder that instantly dissolves in your mouth. The caffeine is suppossedly absorbed […]
Caffeine Content Doesn't Lie! Does Starbucks Use Cheap Robusta Beans After All?
There are two major varieties of the coffee plant: Arabica and robusta. All the best tasting coffee, imbued with rich, subtle flavor, is made from arabica beans. Harsher and more bitter coffees are brewed from robusta beans. The only reason robusta varieties are used at all is that they are hardier plants and cheaper to grow and harvest. […]
Caffeine Reduces Some Breast Cancer Risks by over 55%
According to new findings published in Breast Cancer Research, caffeine reduces the risk of some types of breast cancer by more than 55%. A new study carried out by Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute revealed an inverse correlation between high daily intakes of caffeine and developing a sub-type of breast tumor called “estrogen-receptor negative breast […]
Coffee Tasting – Tanzanian Mbeya
As I mentioned in a post on this web site last week, a friend of mine gave me some Tanzanian Mbeya beans as a gift. As I am not very familiar with African coffees, I tested them first against the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe beans I described last week. While the Yirgacheffe were brightly floral in flavor, […]
