If your morning routine starts with a cup of coffee, chances are you’re doing it wrong.
There’s actually an optimal time to start sipping, and it tends to be after you get into the office, at around 10 a.m. In the early morning, our bodies produce high levels of cortisol — the stress hormone that helps us become more alert in the first place. Filling the body with caffeine signals the body to make less cortisol, which means the body will start relying on coffee, rather than its natural functions, to wake up.
You could also improve your coffee drinking habits by becoming familiar with how much caffeine is in your cup. The average grande at Starbucks will serve more jitters than the average medium at Dunkin’, for example. Getting a grip on this info can help ensure you’re not over (or under) caffeinated.
It’s time you become an expert coffee drinker. To perfect your coffee drinking routine, and to learn why you should be taking a nap-a-latte, check out the infographic from Art of Wellbeing below. Cheers!
Coffee (Or At Least, The Caffeine!) Can Help You Proofread Better
The caffeine in coffee could actually help you to
spot grammatical errors, according to a new study in the
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Researchers found that
caffeine helped students to correct errors in subject-verb agreement and verb tense, MSNBC reported. However, the caffeine still didn’t seem to make a difference at identifying misspelled words — sorry.
Coffee (Or At Least, The Caffeine!) Can Help You Proofread Better
The caffeine in coffee could actually help you to
spot grammatical errors, according to a new study in the
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Researchers found that
caffeine helped students to correct errors in subject-verb agreement and verb tense, MSNBC reported. However, the caffeine still didn’t seem to make a difference at identifying misspelled words — sorry.
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Coffee Could Lower Women’s Depression Risk
Women who drink a few cups of
caffeinated coffee have a lower risk of depression than women who don’t drink any coffee, according to a Harvard study. That research, published in the
Archives of Internal Medicine, shows that women who drink two to three cups of coffee a day have a 15 percent lower risk, while women who drink four or more cups of coffee a day have a 20 percent lower risk. Study research Dr. Albert Ascherio
told HuffPost earlier that “caffeine is known to affect the brain,” because it “modulates the release of mood transmitters.” “I’m not saying we’re on the path to discovering a new way to prevent depression,” he said. “But I think you can be reassured that if you are drinking coffee, it is coming out as a positive thing.”
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Coffee Could Save Your Brain
… Well, maybe. A study in the
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that there’s something in coffee — though researchers have yet to determine what exactly that “something” is — interacts with caffeine to boost the levels of granulocyte colony stimulating factor (GCSF), a growth factor that seems to be able to
fight off Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The amount of coffee needed in the study is equivalent to about four or five cups of coffee for humans. Researchers said
GCSF likely has this effect because it causes stem cells in the bone marrow to come into the brain and remove the beta-amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. It also has a role in forming brain cell connections and creating new brain neurons, researchers said.
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Coffee Could Lower Men’s Prostate Cancer Risk
A Harvard School of Public Health study shows that men who drink six cups of coffee a day have a 60 percent decreased
chance of developing a dangerous form of prostate cancer, as well as a 20 percent decreased chance of developing any other kinds of prostate cancer. The study, published in the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, also shows that just
drinking just some coffee a day — just one to three cups — could still cut prostate cancer risk by 30 percent.
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Coffee Could Ward Off The World’s Most Common Cancer
New research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research conference shows that coffee could help to
ward off basal cell carcinoma, the most common cancer in the world. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that women who drink three or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day have a 20 percent lower risk of the skin cancer, while men had a 9 percent lower risk. Decaf coffee didn’t seem to have the same protective effect — so “our study shows that the inverse association with BCC appears due to caffeine, not other components in the coffee consumption,” study researcher Fengju Song, Ph.D., earlier
told HuffPost.
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Coffee Could Protect You From Type 2 Diabetes
Drinking coffee is associated with a
lower Type 2 diabetes risk, with more coffee consumption linked to a greater decrease in risk, according to an
Archives of Internal Medicine review of studies from 2009. In that review, researchers looked at data from more than 450,000 people in 18 studies, and found that for every extra cup of coffee drank a day, a person’s risk of Type 2 diabetes decreased by 7 percent. However, researchers cautioned that “the putative
protective effects of these beverages warrant further investigation in randomized trials.”
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Coffee Could Decrease Parkinson’s Risk
Drinking
a few cups of coffee a day could lower the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease by as much as 25 percent, according to a study published last year in the
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. In that review of studies, which was published in the
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, researchers examined 26 studies that involved 125,000 British people, to find that
two or three cups of coffee seemed to have the optimal effect,
The Telegraph reported.
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