The many uses of
coffee grounds
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Showing posts with label Coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coffee. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Coffee
Coffee in the news again.
This is what 3 cups of coffee a day do to your Liver
http://www.healthylifetricks.com/3-cups-coffee-day-liver/
and … some uses
for the coffee grounds
7 Surprising uses
for coffee grounds
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Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Coffee
More on the Pros and Cons of Coffee. At the end of the day,
I guess if you moderate your consumption, you will be all right.
This is what 3+
cups of coffee a day do to your liver
http://buynongmoseeds.com/this-is-what-3-cups-of-coffee-a-day-do-to-your-liver/
Coffee May Protect the Liver
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/coffee-may-protect-the-liver/?_r=0
Heavy Coffee Drinkers Beware: New Study Shows It Could Shorten Your Life
http://www.thejournal.ie/coffee-study-shorten-life-1041127-Aug2013/
3 to 5 Cups of Coffee a Day May Lower Risk of Heart Attacks
http://www.livescience.com/50012-coffee-heart-attack-risk.html
8 True Benefits of Drinking Coffee You Didn’t
Know About
Friday, 13 March 2015
Coffee
The
debate on whether coffee is good or bad for you goes on.
One Article
is from the BBC News Site and the other one from the internet. Click on the link to read the articles. If that doesn't work, copy and paste the links.
Regular Coffee Drinkers Have ‘Cleaner’
Arteries
This Is What 2 Cups Of Coffee Per Day Will Do
To Your Liver
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Coffee
More good news for coffee drinkers - especially the guys.
Coffee cuts prostate cancer risk: Study
More is better when it comes to drinking coffee, to ward off the risk of deadly prostate cancer, according to a major United States study.
Men who drank six or more cups of the beverage per day had a 60 per cent lower risk of developing the most lethal type of prostate cancer and a 20 per cent lower risk of forming any type of prostate cancer, compared to men who did not drink coffee, it said.
Even just one to three cups per day was linked to a 30 per cent lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer, according to the research carried out at the Harvard School of Public Health.
“Our study is the largest to date to examine whether coffee can lower the risk of lethal prostate cancer,” said Harvard associate professor and the study’s senior author Lorelei Nucci.
The effects were the same whether the coffee was caffeinated or decaffeinated, leading researchers to believe that the lower risk could be lined to the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits of coffee.
Prostate cancer is the third-most common cancer affecting men in Singapore. About 2,500 cases are diagnosed each year. A blood test can detect it early, and the caner can be graded on a Gleason score; the higher it is, the more likely the cancer is to spread.
Risk factors are typically lined to high-fat diets, heredity, alcohol and exposure to chemicals.
The study examined 47,911 US men who reported how much coffee they drank every four years from 1986 to 2008.
The lower risk seen in coffee drinkers remained even after researchers allowed for other factors that typically boost risk and were more often seen in coffee drinkers, such as smoking and failure to exercise.
- Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Coffee: Drink to Your Health
Good news for coffee drinkers.
For many years, coffee was considered a vice, linked with sleepless nights and cigarettes. But scientists have discovered that coffee contains potent antioxidants that can fight numerous ailments, including heart disease and diabetes. According to the American Coffee Association, 54 percent of Americans drink coffee on a daily basis, and they drink, on average, over three cups each.
The diseases coffee can benefit include:
• Dementia.
Drinking moderate amounts of coffee during middle age — classified as three to five cups daily — can decrease the risk of dementia by 65 percent, according to a 2009 study by Swedish and Finnish researchers.
• Liver disease.
In those who drink too much alcohol, those who drank the most coffee — more than four cups every day — reduced their risk of developing alcoholic cirrhosis by 80 percent.
• Heart disease.
Research associated with The Nurses' Health Study found that women who drank two to three cups of coffee daily had a 25 percent lower risk of dying from heart disease. Along the same line, a Spanish study found that men who drank more than five cups of coffee each day lowered their risk of dying from heart disease by 44 percent, and that women who drank four to five cups each day reduced their risk by 34 percent.
• Prostate cancer.
A recent study from Harvard Medical School found that men who drank the most coffee slashed their risk of developing the fastest growing and most difficult to treat prostate cancers by more than half when compared to men who drank no coffee.
• Gout.
Drinking four or more cups of coffee each day dramatically reduces the incidence of gout, say U.S. and Canadian researchers. Men who drank four to five cups daily lowered their risk by 40 percent, and those who drank six or more cups daily reduced their risk of developing gout by 59 percent when compared to men who didn't drink coffee.
• Breast cancer.
Coffee can either reduce the risk of developing breast cancer or delay its onset, according to Swedish studies. They found that coffee alters a woman's metabolism and produces a safer balance of estrogens. Women who drank two to three cups of coffee a day reduced their cancer risk by as much as two-thirds, depending on the specific type of breast cancer.
• Diabetes.
Enjoying six or more cups of coffee daily can cut chances of Type 2 diabetes by 54 percent in men and 30 percent in women over those who don't drink coffee..
• Parkinson's disease.
Several studies show that drinking coffee lowers a man's risk of developing Parkinson's up to 80 percent — and the more the better.
• Colon cancer
• A Japanese report found that women who drank three or more cups of coffee every day slashed their risk of developing colon cancer in half.
What's responsible for coffee's healthy benefits? Most researchers believe it's the antioxidants (polyphenols or flavonoids) in coffee, but there are hundreds of compounds in coffee that may be partially responsible.
- By Sylvia Booth Hubbard, Newsmax
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Coffee Helps Asthmatics
The claim: A cup of coffee can ease symptoms of asthma.
The facts: Caffeine is known more as a pick-me-up than a home remedy but, for years, scientists have wondered whether it may have benefits for people with asthma.
The suspicion stems in part from its chemical structure, which resembles that of theophylline, a common asthma medication that relaxes the airway muscles and relieves wheezing and other respiratory problems.
In fact, when caffeine is ingested and broken down by the liver, one by-product is small amounts of theophylline.
In a 2007 study in the Cochrane Database Of Systematic Reviews, researchers analysed the results of half a dozen clinical trials looking at the effects of caffeine on asthmatics.
They found that caffeine produced small improvements in airway function for up to four hours, compared with a placebo. Even a small dose - less than the amount in a cup of Starbucks coffee - could improve lung function for up to two hours.
However, studies show the improvements are very slight and not enough to make caffeine a replacement for medication.
The other problem is that because of their chemical similarities, consuming too much caffeine can compound any side effects of theophylline.
As a result, doctors advise people taking that medication to watch their consumption of foods with caffeine.
The bottom line: Caffeine’s benefits for asthma are real but minimal.
- The New York Times
Friday, 21 May 2010
Coffee Can Be Good For The Heart
A couple of cups of coffee a day may help some heart attack patients avoid further serious problems, provided they have normal blood pressure, researchers found.
The finding is somewhat surprising, given the fact that strong coffee can cause palpitations.
A study of 374 patients who had a heart attack or other acute heart problems found that those with normal blood pressure and who drank one or two cups of coffee a day were 88 percent less likely than non-coffee drinkers to develop a condition in which the heart fails to pump blood effectively.
The condition, known as left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD), is a common precursor of heart failure.
The protective effect, however, was not seen in patients with high blood pressure, where coffee drinking is linked to an increased likelihood of developing LVSD.
“Coffee contains several biologically active compounds which may have either beneficial or harmful effects on the cardiovascular system,” said Greek investigator Christina-Maria Kastorini.
Coffee is a rich source of chlorogenic acid and antioxidants, which have protective properties. However, in people with hypertension, its negative effect on blood pressure appears to cancel this out.
The research was conducted by a team at Harokopio University and the Hippokration Hospital in Athens, Greece. The findings were presented at a European Society of Cardiology meeting in Prague recently.
- Reuters
Friday, 26 March 2010
That Cuppa’s Good For You
Coffee has had its good press and its bad. So has tea, though to a lesser degree.
Should you drink it? How much is too much? Does it do you any good other than give you a perk in the morning and a boost as you work? Is it good for your health?
The news keeps changing, but java fans and teal tipplers will be glad to hear this: A new study has shown that consuming coffee and tea - even decaffeinated versions - could help lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
The study, which appears in the Archives Of Internal Medicine, is a meta-analysis of 457,922 people in 18 studies published between 1966 and last year that looked at the link between drinking coffee and diabetes risk.
After analysis, the study authors concluded that every extra cup of coffee consumed in one day was correlated with a 7 per cent decrease in the risk of diabetes.
Those who drank three to four cups of coffee or tea a day were associated with a 25 per cent reduced diabetes risk compared to those who drank none to two cups day.
Researchers also saw positive results with decaffeinated coffee and tea. People who drank more than three to four cups of the decaf beverage a day had about a one-third lower risk than those who did not drink any.
Meanwhile, those who drank more than three to four cups of tea a day had about a one-fifth lower diabetes risk than non-drinkers.
As the decreased risk was also seen among those who did not consume caffeine, researchers concluded that caffeine could not be the only key ingredient.
Attention shifted to other chemicals found in the beverages. These included magnesium (shown in studies to reduce diabetes risk), lignans (plant-derived chemical compounds that have antioxidant properties) and chlorogenic acids ( plant-derived antioxidants that slow down glucose release after eating).
Researchers speculated that identifying the components of coffee and tea active in reducing Type 2 diabetes risk could pave the way for new therapies to thereat the disease.
- The New York Times
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Run Faster On Coffee
This sounds far-fetched. I wonder if all sports personnel, after reading this, are going to have a cup of coffee before a competition.
Just a small cup is enough to better your performance by 5 per cent and it works for all sports, say researchers.
New York – Mr Weldon Johnson first tried caffeine as a performance enhancer in 1998. he was not a coffee drinker but had heard it could make him run faster. So he went to a convenience store before a race and drank a cup of coffee.
For the first time in his life, he ran 10 km in under 30 minutes.
“I remember being really wired before the race.” He said. “MY body was shaking.”
From then on, he was a convert.
Mr Johnson, a founder of LetsRun.com, would avoid caffeine, even in soft drinks, for a few weeks before he competed in a race, wanting to have the full stimulant effect.
“It might have been a huge placebo effect but I swore by it,” he said.
Or maybe, it was not a placebo effect.
Caffeine, it turns out, actually works. And it is legal, one of the few performance enhancers that is not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Exercise physiologists have studied caffeine’s effects: Does it help sprinters? Cyclists Swimmers? Athletes whose sports involve stopping and starting such as tennis players? The answers are yes and yes and yes and yes.
From as long ago as 1978, researchers have been publishing caffeine studies. And they concluded that it actually does improve performance. In fact, some experts, such as Dr Mark Tarnopolsky of McMaster University in Canada, are just incredulous.
“There is so much data on this that it is unbelievable.” He says. “It is just unequivocal that caffeine improves performance. It has been shown in well-respected labs in multiple places around the world.”
The only new questions are how it exerts its effects and how little caffeine is needed to get an effect.
For many years, researchers thought the sole reason people could exercise harder and longer after using caffeine was that the compound helped muscles use fat as a fuel, sparing the glycogen stored in muscles and increasing endurance.
But there were several hints that something else was going on. For example, caffeine improved performance even in short intense bursts of exercise when endurance was not an issue.
Now, Dr Tarnopolsky and others report that it increases the power output of muscles by releasing calcium that is stored in muscle.
The effect enables athletes to keep going longer or to go faster in the same length of time. Caffeine also affects the brain’s sensation of exhaustion, the feeling that it is time to stop, that you cannot go on any more.
The performance improvement in controlled laboratory settings can be 20 to 25 per cent, Dr Tarnopolsky says. But in the real world, the improvement may average about 5 per cent, still significant if you want to get your best time or even win a race.
Ms Louise Burke, head of sports nutrition department of the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, reports that athletes get the full caffeine effect with as little as 1mg of caffeine per kg of body weight. So an 80kg man could drink one small cup of coffee or two cans of Coke to enjoy a lift.
And even if you are a regular coffee drinker, if you have a cuppa before a race, you will do better, Dr Tarnopolsky says.
He puts the research to use when he trains and competes. He is an elite triathlete, ski orienteer and trail runner. Besides, he loves coffee: “I love the smell. I love the taste. It is heaven.”
- The New York Times
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Coffee Drinkers Less Likely To Get Dementia
Drinking coffee may do more than just keep you awake. A new study, published recently in The Journal Of Alzheimer’s Disease, suggests it may keep dementia at bay too.
A team of Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee consumption in a group of 1,409 middle-aged men and women for an average of 21 years. During that time, 61 participants developed dementia and 48 had Alzheimer’s disease.
After considering numerous socio-economic and health factors, including high cholesterol and high blood pressure, the scientists found that those who drank three to five cups of coffee daily were 65 per cent less likely to have dementia, compared to those who drank two cups of less. People who drank more than five cups a day were also at reduced risk of dementia, but there were not enough people in this group to draw statistically significant conclusions.
Dr Mia Kivipelto, an associate professor of neurology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and lead author of the study, does not as yet advocate drinking coffee as a preventive health measure. “We have no evidence that for people who are not drinking coffee, taking up drinking will have a protective effect.”
Dr Kivipelto and her colleagues suggested several possibilities for why coffee might reduce the risk of dementia. First, studies have linked coffee consumption to a decreased risk of Type 2 diabetes, which has been associated with higher risk of dementia.
In animal studies, caffeine has been shown to reduce the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Finally, coffee may have an antioxidant effect in the bloodstream, reducing vascular risk factors for dementia.
Dr Kivipelto noted that studies have shown coffee drinking may also be linked to a reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease.
- The New York Times
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