Coffee Shop Talk

 In perhaps one of the greatest arguments why we should drink coffee, researchers have found that coffee slows down the aging process thereby delaying the onset of the signs and symptoms of old age. Coffee does this by supplying our body with healthy amount of antioxidants to combat oxidative stress, a term that refers to the breakdown of chain reactions in the body caused by free radicals.

Free radicals are the byproducts of normal cell process that involves oxygen, but we should maintain a healthy balance free radicals and antioxidant activities to keep the body in good condition. The body naturally produces antioxidants, but with environmental pollutants and lifestyle choices like smoking and drinking, our body’s antioxidant production can’t keep with these stress factors.

Being the world’s second most popular drink, coffee is easily accessible for most of us. A cup of coffee a day has been proven to have a wide variety of benefits aside from delaying the aging process. Some of us might be tempted to drink more cups of coffee a day hoping to further reduce the signs of aging. But anything in excess will harm the body and coffee is no exception. So drink and enjoy your morning cuppa moderately to enjoy the health benefits.

 Drinking coffee in the morning may wake you up, but did you know that studies have suggested that drinking coffee might weaken your brains ability to recall words in the short run? Caffeine has been discovered to make people forget a word that they already knew. Scientist believe that this phenomenon caused by caffeine improves alertness by shutting down other brain functions thus making it harder to recall words.

In certain conditions, caffeine can actually help short term memory but could make it worse in others. By testing this theory in laboratory experiments, they found it can degrade or improve one’s memory depending on what you’re trying to remember. Words that sound similar to a question ask to you might yield a better result than one that has sounds nothing like the question.

Further studies are being conducted to discover the effect of drinking coffee with people having word retrieval difficulties or aphasia. But us coffee lovers shouldn’t worry too much about this since studies are still in the early stages and there are still no concrete proof about this outside the laboratories. Moderate consumption of coffee is still very much advised since coffee has a lot of health benefits.

 We all know that drinking coffee helps keep us awake as well as being more alert, but did you know coffee could make us drunk as well? It’s true! There is such a thing as coffee beer. Coffee beer is brewed primarily from Arabica coffee beans because of it’s chocolate and vanilla taste, has around 4% alcohol content and is primarily targeted at adults as a cappuccino drink. Other coffee varieties tend to have a nutty or bitter taste that makes them unsuitable for being brewed as beer. This is a drink that you won’t see at your local coffee shops anytime soon because of it’s alcohol content might raise certain regulatory issues to keep this from being served to minors.

Coffee beers can be found on certain specialty stores and in some bars here in the Philippines. Although coffee beers have relatively low alcohol content, the caffeine content in each glass is equivalent to a cup of coffee. So people who consumer a couple of glasses may find themselves having trouble sleeping as well as other symptoms of drinking too much coffee. This is a perfect drink for coffee lovers who enjoy an occational glass of beer or two.