Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts

Friday 24 January 2014

Is Adding Butter to Your Coffee Actually Good For You?

Forget the cream and sugar. Adding a pat of butter to your morning coffee can help you kick your day into overdrive—at least, according to advocates of the Bulletproof Coffee trend. 
Bulletproof Coffee, which is basically just a cup of black coffee with grass-fed butter and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) oil mixed in, was designed by Dave Asprey, owner of Bulletproof Executive, to "supercharge your brain function and create effortless fat loss with no cravings." Now, Paleo dieters and grass-fed butter fanatics alike are adding the butter-and-oil combo to their javas. Matt Lauer has even taste-tested a steaming-hot mug of butter coffee on The TODAY Show. 

Monday 13 January 2014

Is Coffee the New Sports Drink?

BY ESTHER CRAIN
Certain beverages have star reps as pre- and post-workout drinks, like flavored fitness water, regular H2O, and even chocolate milk. Now add a cup of coffee to the list. A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE found that contrary to what nutritionists have long thought, coffee does not dehydrate you.

Friday 13 December 2013

The great coffee debate: to drink or not to drink

"To drink or not to drink coffee" has been the focus of many researchers in the past. Up to now, scientists are still in conflict on whether coffee is good or bad for the body.
Caffeine, which is the main ingredient of coffee, causes increased heart rate and blood pressure. Naturally, people would assume that increased consumption of coffee would be bad for one's health.
This idea was supported by previous studies associating heavy coffee drinking and heart disease.

Saturday 7 December 2013

Can We Blame Our Sexless Lives on Smart Phones?

By Farhana Nazir, Refinery29

The thought-provoking findings from the recent National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) provides us with some great insight into our sex lives. One worrisome revelation: We're getting busy far less than we used to - in fact, just three times a month on average. Shocking, right?
But, even more depressing is the revelation that our technological addictions could be to blame for our sex-starved lifestyles. Damn you, iPhone 5! Professor Kaye Wellings of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tells The Daily Telegraph, "People [are] taking laptops to bed, iPads, the fact work comes into our home now - there's no strict divide." So, that bedroom office isn't such a good idea, after all.