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| Coffee & Mental Performance |
| The latest scientific evidence indicates that about 200 mg of caffeine, the amount typically found in two cups of coffee, will not only increase your level of alertness but also help your short-term memory.
For that exam season or those important meetings and interviews, coffee drinkers everywhere will be delighted to know that it helps to give them energy to study and concentrate.
Drinking coffee will also help us memorise all those little details that may give us an advantage at such critical times, as coffee can also help boost short-term memory. |
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| Coffee in the Workplace |
| Two cups of coffee is all it takes to overcome fatigue and feel alert again. This resulting increase in alertness may be especially beneficial in certain situations (e.g. when working at night or for prolonged periods; also when we are deprived of sleep or are jet-lagged).
Drinking coffee also improves our performance when our level of alertness is low (when we need to remain alert or undertaking repetitive jobs). |
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| Coffee and Antioxidants |
| Antioxidants may be of great benefit in improving the quality of life by preventing or postponing the onset of degenerative diseases.
The human body has a complex system of its own natural antioxidant defences that counteract the harmful effects of free radicals and other oxidants. However, protection against free radicals can be enhanced by ample intakes of dietary antioxidants, and this includes drinking coffee. |
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| Coffee and Liver Function |
| For many of us the day does not begin until we have enjoyed our first cup of coffee. We know it helps increase our energy and alertness, but there is increasing scientific evidence to show that coffee may also help provide significant protection in many ways against the development of liver disease. |
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| Coffee and Exercise Performance |
| Exercise plays a part in all our lives whether we are playing the occasional game of football with the children, using exercise to help fight the battle of the bulge, or, if we are elite athletes, hoping to emulate the performances of the medal winners at the Olympics.
So when we find that caffeine, at levels found in one cup of coffee, can both reduce the sensation of fatigue as well as enhance exercise performance, this has significant implications for us all. |
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| Coffee and Parkinson's Disease |
| Parkinson's disease is one of the most well known of all neurological disorders. There is a growing evidence from animal and human studies that not only can caffeine help relieve the symptoms associated with this disease, but can also have a protective effect on nerve cells.
It would appear from many of these studies that coffee consumption also reduces or delays the development of the disease, with caffeine being the most likely factor |
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| Coffee and Diabetes |
| Over the past twenty years there has been a worldwide epidemic rise in the incidence of this disease. The growing body of published research suggests that, alongside other lifestyle measures such as weight control and exercise, regular coffee drinking may also have a protective effect against developing Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of this disease. |
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| Coffee and Health - Some Surprising Findings |
| Coffee is drunk all over the world, every day, by both young and old, but like many other things we enjoy in our everyday life, we sometimes question whether it is good for us.
To help dispel a few of the misconceptions, here are the latest findings on some of those less well-known health related benefits of drinking coffee. |
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| Coffee and Safer Driving |
| All of us are very vulnerable to sleepiness if we have had too little or poor quality sleep. Tiredness can easily affect our driving skills and judgements, and if that happens in a built up area, it can be particularly dangerous. Find out how coffee can help be a safe counter measure to driver sleepiness |
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| Coffee and Social Pleasure |
| Coffee raises mood, improves our concentration and may even promote the well-being of the immune system, so enhancing our ability to cope not only with life, but to enjoy it |
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| Coffee and Cancer |
| Since 1991, the results of studies have shown data about four main cancer sites that would be of interest to coffee drinkers. They are bowel (colorectal), pancreatic, bladder and liver cancers. |
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| Coffee and Hydration |
| The caffeine in coffee has a mild diuretic effect, increasing the frequency of urination but not the amount of fluid passed. For many years health and exercise experts thought that, as a consequence, coffee and other caffeinated beverages promoted dehydration and didn't count as a source of fluid in the diet. We now know this is not true and there is no scientific evidence to support these views. |
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