A cup of coffee* and a little read before we hit the road to Chincoteague. It's carnival time on the island!
Had mojitos last night in PTown with some dear friends. My friend's parents just completely renovated a Victorian farmhouse in Port Norfolk and it is stunning. Modern inside with period touches. Metallic gloss walls (sounds horrid, but it looks cool) in the dining room and hi-gloss white cabinets in the kitchen. I gawk and drool every time I go over there.
I left last night with a new pedestal sink and toilet - one's they had removed when updating the bathrooms. Lucky me! It pays to drive a minivan.
*only on saturdays - sigh
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I don't understand- why have you stopped your regular coffee consumption?? I think it can be beneficial even, in moderate amounts. Why deny yourself this pleasure? French researchers reported in a 1999 study to the American Chemical
Society that caffeine has no affect on the area of the brain involved
with addiction at doses of one to three cups of coffee per day
And NBC reports that some studies have shown coffee associated with
the reduction of colon cancer and bladder cancer because of the
phenols it contains.
For asthma and allergy attack suffers, a cup of coffee can quell the
attack if there are no medications around.
Drinking coffee with caffeine increases metabolism.
After a 10 year study by the University of Bristol, researchers
discovered that a cup of coffee can help in the performance of tasks
requiring sustained attention. It further helped enhance a person's
ability to perform these tasks during low alertness situations such as
after lunch, at night or when a person has a cold.
http://www.bella-caffe.com/Benefits_of_Coffee.htm
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VUMC [Vanderbilt University Medical Center] was awarded $6 million
over three years to create the Institute within the Vanderbilt
Addiction Center. It is the first research institute in the world
established to study the possible health benefits of coffee.
Martin said that although many people have worried that drinking
coffee is bad for you, the latest scientific evidence indicates that
drinking coffee in moderation (2 to 4 cups per day) might in fact
offer some health benefits.
“Large scale population studies over the last half-century have
carefully documented the health benefits of coffee consumption,”
Martin said. “In fact, recent epidemiologic studies, independently
replicated, show that coffee has protective effects for suicide, liver
cirrhosis, colorectal cancer, Parkinson’s disease and heart disease
mortality.”
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/?ID=1487
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"According to a spate of such recent studies moderate coffee drinking
may lower the risk of colon cancer by about 25%, gallstones by 45%,
cirrhosis of the liver by 80%, and Parkinson's disease by 50% to as
much as 80%. Other benefits include 25% reduction in onset of attacks
among asthma sufferers and, at least among a large group of female
nurses tracked over many years, fewer suicides.
In addition, some studies have indicated that coffee contains four
times the amount of cancer-fighting anti-oxidants as green tea."
http://www.coffeereview.com/reference.cfm?ID=122
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"There is increasing scientific evidence to show that coffee may
provide significant protection against the development of liver
disease.
In a presentation at the International Coffee Organization-sponsored
Positively Coffee meeting at the Tea and Coffee Symposium, held in
Rome earlier this month, Professor Amleto D’Amicis, Head of the
Nutrition Information Unit at Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli
Alimenti e la Nutrizione (INRAN), in Rome, highlighted how coffee
drinking specifically may be protective against:
§ Cirrhosis of the liver (a disease causing progressive damage and
scarring of the liver tissue and function).
§ Gallbladder disease - by reducing the risk of gallstone formation.
§ An increase of liver enzyme activity. A high liver enzyme activity
is a recognized indicator that there has been deterioration in the
functioning of liver cells and possible development of disease in the
liver."
http://www.ncausa.org/public/pages/headlinedetails.cfm?id=125&returnto=1
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Health benefits of coffee and:
* Antioxidants
* Anxiety Sensitivity
* Asthma
* Athletic Performance
* Cirrhosis of the Liver
* Colon Cancer
* Depression
* Gallstone Disease
* Heart Disease
* Kidney Stones
* The Nervous System
* Weight Loss
* Other Research
http://www.thanksgivingcoffee.com/perfectcup/health.html
------------------------- just asking!
Someone drank too much coffee!
I don't drink coffee, never have but I bet you enjoy every second of that cup every Saturday. I am an herbal tea gal.
Great score on the bathroom cast off. Now they will sit there and remind you that you need to tackle that project.
Wow, Marissa! My reason - no more IBS. Plus I crash around noon after that coffee high wears off.
Dawn Marie - you are right about them taking up space and reminding me of the project. I can't wait to start.
But you got that extra toilet, so the ibs is covered, right? i was just wondering...
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