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Getting accurate with caffeine

23/7/2018

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An algorithm made by the US army helped sleep-deprived troops to drink enough coffee to stay awake

Apps helping you manage your caffeine intake

​Millions of people who struggle to get the recommend 8 hours sleep may have an answer or at least an aid to help them manage full days at work. The US army thought it was beneficial to work out and create an algorithm to recommend a suitable level of caffeine to get you through your working day, say the optimum level to function based on your levels of sleep + your daily routine. 

Though it wasn't initially intended for you and I and was put into development to enable the troops to operate at maximum efficiency, it will now be made available in the next few months in the form of an App to guide you as needed. The App will draw on data that had been collected over decades of sleep data.

Numerous studies show that reaction times in the sleep deprived can be up to 40 per cent slower than what would be considered normal, a comparison can be made against someone who would be over the drink driving limit, so being sleep deprived can be dangerous. A third of Britons sleep on average between 5-6 hours a night, for a sleep of 5 hours and a wake up time of 6am the App would recommend a cup of coffee at 7am and 9am to set you up for the rest of the day. 

If you slept for 6.8 hours for 5 consecutive nights then you'd require 200mg of caffeine or two filter coffees.
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20 Years of Science confirms the benefits of coffee

13/3/2018

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Results of a 2o year study

The Independent has reported on a 20 year study where almost 210,000 people were studied since 1976. Dr. Frank Hu joined the team in 1996 where he aided in the organizing of the data collected over the last 20 years. A huge 4.7 million person years of data was collected. Data on this scale meant that it took several generations of scientists to complete the study. Frank Hu asserts that the level of data collected here was necessary and useful due to the complexity of the beverage.
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"Coffee is certainly a very complex beverage, Besides caffeine, it contains hundreds, perhaps thousands, of bioactive compounds. So it's very difficult, perhaps impossible, to tease out the effects of individual compounds or chemicals."
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He goes on to say that coffee's health benefits derive from not just a few of the compounds, but more likely the synergistic effects of many compounds, minerals and antioxidants. Many think of caffeine when they think of coffee yet many of the same benefits can be attained from both regular and decaf coffees. 

The study strongly indicated that regular drinkers of coffee typically lived longer and were less likely to fall to cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and even suicide. Caution was given that not everyone responds the same way to coffee so drink in moderation and keep up with good healthy habits. 
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Latest studies advocate up to 5 cups of coffee a day

27/11/2015

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A new study advocates up to 5 cups of coffee

The latest studies on caffeine point to more health benefits that coffee consumption can produce.
It's found that young people who drink between three and five cups of coffee a day are less likely to die young from a variety of different illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes,  suicide and Parkinson Neurological disease. The findings were not entirely clear, but the benefits of coffee could be connected with its ability to reduce insulin resistance.

Though the leader of the study Ming Ding of Harvard school of public health was excited by the results was clear that more research would be required.    

The sample size was of 208,000 people over 30 years, during the study 19,525 women died and 12,432 men died from a range of causes. Coffee consumption was not connected to the number of cancer deaths, the analyses took into account potential confounding factors such as Smoking, Body Mass Index (BMI), Physical Activity, Alcohol Consumption and other dietary factors.
"This study provides further evidence that moderate consumption of coffee may confer health benefits in terms of reducing premature death due to several diseases" 
Frank HU, Professor of Nutrition and epidemiology
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Phone Box Coffee!

5/8/2015

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Jake's Coffee Box - by Jake Hollier (source BBC NEWS UK)
A little place generating big ideas!
Further proof that there are not many places too small for a coffee shop as one of the smallest coffee shops in Birmingham has recently opened up – inside a telephone box!
"I wanted to bring something different to the city. The red boxes are iconic to our image as Brits." Jake Hollier

The coffee shop was rented by Jake Hollier and is rather fittingly called Jake’s Coffee Box, It’s located in Eden Place near Colmore Row, Birmingham. 

Somewhere else thinking outside the box is Brighton’s Pavilion Gardens where two phone boxes have recently been utilised to sell Coffee and Ice cream. 


What a great idea it is to keep these iconic landmarks useful and appealing for busy commuters.
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Simon Evans Goes to Market

30/7/2015

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Comedian Simon Evans returns with a new series about the economics of some of the goods - or bads - we are addicted to. If you crave your daily coffee, can't get by without a cigarette, feel that mid-afternoon
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