Archive for the 'Caffeine' Category

 For women, especially, the brew could boost heart health, study finds.
Good news for coffee lovers: Drinking up to six cups a day of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee daily won’t shorten your life span, a new study shows.
In fact, coffee might even help the heart, especially for women, the researchers found.
“Our results suggest that long-term, regular […]

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Posted By: ashley | Jun 18th


The age-old debate about the egg’s place in our diet is finally over (again) in this list of Food Myths Debunked, as are many other food-related old wives tales.  Now if the experts could finally decide between butter and margarine, we’ll be set.

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Posted By: rebecca | Jun 5th


 Drinking coffee at breakfast dramatically increases blood sugar levels, a group of University of Guelph researchers have found.
Blood glucose levels in people who ate low glycemic index (low-sugar) cereal spiked by 250 per cent if they drank caffeinated coffee before or with breakfast, compared to decaf coffee.
Caffeine makes the body resistant to insulin, which in […]

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Posted By: ashley | May 21st


First time pregnancies have a 1 in 4 odd of ending up in a miscarriage.  But did you know that caffeine doubles the risk of a miscarriage regardless of which pregnancy it is for the mother?
Pregnant women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day have twice the risk of having a miscarriage […]

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Posted By: froosh | Jan 21st