Top 15 Effects That Coffee Has on Your Health

Coffee is my favorite!!! some thoughts to be shared... Some are trying hard to show the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, others see it as the devil's beverage. Others say it's rather a bogus. Read on and decide for yourself who's right! 1. Some say that the energy boosting effect of the morning coffee is only in your mind and you should sleep more. The caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms accumulating overnight, but does not make people more alert. Only people who do not regularly drink coffee will get a 'push-up' from caffeine, while the British Coffee Associationinsists that regular drinkers do feel more alert. Regular coffee drinkers swear that their morning caffeine wakes them up, and in case they don't take it, they feel they have no energy and will surely be less efficient in their activities. Researches show that a first caffeine intake does not make the individuals more alert than those who do not drink coffee are. Others insist that moderate coffee consumption of four to five cups per day is perfectly safe for the general population and has a beneficial effect on alertness and performance even in the case of regular coffee drinkers. Caffeine, the main active chemical of coffee, blocks adenosine, a chemical that makes you naturally drowsy, increasing concentration and reaction speed. But the long term effects can be really tricky. Once the temporary stimulation stops, the brain cells start needing caffeine for stimulation and a sudden neural sluggishness installs. 2. Caffeine has been found to prevent cognitive decline in the elderly women. Women aged 65 and older who consumed over three cups of coffee (or the same caffeine levels in tea) daily scored better over time on memory  tests than women who drank one cup or less of coffee/tea daily did. The memory benefits of the caffeine rise with age - coffee drinkers being 30 % less exposed to memory impairment at age 65 and 70 % less over 80. Still, caffeine consumers did not have lower rates of dementia. Caffeine seems to slow the dementia process rather than prevent it. Why caffeine has a slightly different effect on women than it does in men is a puzzle. Caffeine has been found also to protect against Parkinson's disease and depression, and this could be linked to its inhibiting effect on adenosine receptors. Depression is eased because caffeine increases dopamine, the "happy feeling" hormone, in your brain. 3. Italian researchers found that coffee defends against blepharospasm, an involuntary eye spasm which makes patients blink uncontrollably, which may turn into a severe vision impairment, and in severe cases, this can make the patients functionally blind (despite intact eyeballs)as they cannot impede closing their eyes. One to two cups daily have this effect. The blepharospasm on set age was delayed by coffee drinking, with 1.7 years for each extra daily cup, and this could be due to caffeine's effect on the adenosine receptors. 4. Everybody knows the laxative effect of coffee. Brewed coffee also contains soluble cellulose fibers, which help the body absorb vital nutrients, keep a lid on cholesterol and fight constipation. The amounts are of 0.47-0.75 grams of fiber per 100 ml. Freeze-dried coffee came out on top. Men comsume on average about 38 g of fiber a day and women around 25 g. A 240 ml cup of coffee could contain as much as 1.5 g of fiber (3.2 cups means 5 g of fiber). 5. High coffee consumption (more than three cups per day for years) increases loss of bone mineral density. Caffeine is a mild diuretic, speeding up the urination cycle, but "steals" calcium which is lost through urine. Long term, heavy caffeine use leads to a rapid development of osteoporosis. 6. The effect of coffee on the cardiovascular health is controversial: some say it's good, others that it is a risk factor. Caffeine blocking adenosine constricts the brain's blood vessels. The heart beats rate increases, muscles tighten, the blood pressure booms, blood vessels near the surface constrict and more blood flows to the muscles. Researches show that blood pressure and heart rate spurred in healthy sedentary adults drinking two cans of caffeine containing drinks daily by up to 11 %. But if you're going to practice sports, the heart beats can increase up to a dangerously high level, while triggering extremities shivering and nausea. On the long term, the unnatural heart racing is unhealthy, and can trigger heart conditions. 7. Caffeine causes sleep disturbances. Don't even think about drinking coffee or other caffeine containing beverages before sleep. And remember that the alkaloid needs 12 hours to be completely eliminated from your body. 8. A new research has found that coffee could cut the risk of skin cancer. 6 cups of caffeinated coffee daily lowered the likelihood of developing skin cancer by 35 %, while 2-3 cups lowered it by 12 %. Caffeine is believed to impede cells dividing in the tumor, or to work as an antioxidant. One research found coffee and exercising fight against sun-induced skin cancer by 400 %. Other researches suggest that coffee could be beneficial also against breast cancer. 9. Coffee fights gout symptoms! The beverage lowers uric acid levels on short term, easing the most common and excruciatingly painful inflammatory arthritis in adult males. Drinking 4-5 cups of coffee daily significantly decreases the risk of gout by 40 % and over 6 cups per day by 59 %. induces this effect; the main suspected being the phenol chlorogenic acid, a powerful antioxidant. 10. Two cups of coffee reduce significantly post-gym muscle pain. Caffeine consumed one-hour before going to the gym induces a 48 % decrease in pain; those who drink caffeine before the near-maximum force test have 26 % drop in soreness. Caffeine boosts endurance, and one study discovered caffeine to decrease pain during moderate-intensity cycling. By blocking the receptors for adenosine, released in response to inflammation and implied in pain sensation, coffee could have this effect. Caffeine seems to be more efficient than conventional pain and soreness reliever drugs, like naproxen (the active ingredient in Aleve), aspirin and ibuprofen. 11. Caffeine mixed with acetaminophen (paracetamol), one of the most common painkillers used in the US and Europe could harm your liver. The caffeine was discovered to triple the quantity of a toxic byproduct, N-acetyl p-benzoquinone imine (NAPQI), produced by the enzyme that breaks down the acetaminophen. Still, the effects would be determined by the daily consume of 20-30 cups of coffee. 12. Caffeine gets women in the mood for sex, especially in moderate amounts and when the women are not heavy drinkers. The chemical is also known to increase excitability in men. Interestingly, female rats that received the middle dose of caffeine had quicker return visits to the males than the highest dose tested. 13. Researches show that the consume of unfiltered coffee increases the level of cholesterol. Why? Because coffee contains a substance called cafestol which triggers the rise of cholesterol levels. The cafestol blocks a receptor in an intestinal pathway crucial for cholesterol regulation, and is the most potent food chemical to do this. By pouring hot water over the ground coffee, the cafestol is extracted. The same thing happens when the ground coffee is boiled in water by several times, like in the case of Turkish coffee or Scandinavian brew, or a paper filter is employed, like in French coffee. If the coffee is made without the filter, the cafestol remains in the prepared beverage. A cup of unfiltered coffee contains up to 4 milligrams of cafestol that can raise the cholesterol level by 1 %. The espresso coffee contains cafestol, as it is not prepared with a filter. Still, this type of coffee can increase less the cholesterol if you use a small cup. Less espresso means less cafestol, probably just 1-2 mg per cup. Still, 5 cups of espresso can raise the cholesterol by 2 %. Decaffeinated coffee contains cafestol, since removing caffeine does not influence the other compound. 14.Coffee was found to remove 78-90 % of the heavy metals dissolved in the tap water, like lead or copper, because the ground coffee has the molecules not electrically charged or negatively charged, attracting the heavy metals, which are positively charged. Stronger coffee removes a higher amount of the toxic heavy metals. Instead, tea removes just one third of the same amount of lead and has not effect on the copper. 15. Coffee can kill you! Just as any other drug, in small amounts, caffeine (and coffee) is a stimulant. But the coffee plant synthesizes the alkaloid with the purpose of killing�its natural consumers. The grazer eating too much coffee will die. We, too, may be killed. The uncontrolled heart beats are the prelude of a heart attack. Over 400 mg of caffeine (found in 4-5 cups of brewed coffee) can cause caffeine intoxication. Some even snort caffeine powder, which results in a more rapid and intense reaction. The symptoms are just like those induced by any other drug: restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, face flushing, increased urination, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, a rambling flow of thought and speech, irritability, irregular heart beat, and psychomotor agitation. Deadly coffee doses have not been tested on people, but in rats the average lethal dose (LD50) of caffeine is 192 mg/kg: 50 % of the rats died after consuming this quantity. In humans, however, the value would be linked to weight and each one's sensitivity, to about 150 to 200 mg/kg of body mass. So, you have to drink 80 to 100 cups of coffee very quickly to die... This also varies with the coffee variety, and cup size, as this determines how much caffeine enters your body. Actually, cases of death caused by coffee drinking have not been reported yet (at least from rapid drinking; the chronic effects are another story) but caffeine pills (just 2 g) are much more effective and have been proven lethal. Web Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Top-14-Coffee-Effects-on-Your-Health-70537.shtml Accessed: 12/9/10 Copyright © 2001-2010 Softpedia. Contact/Tip us at

FRIENDSHIP LAST FOREVER!

Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating the following on a consistent basis:

• the tendency to desire what is best for the other
• sympathy and empathy
• honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart
• Mutual understanding
• Mutual compassion

In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations. Friendship and association can be thought of as spanning across the same continuum. The study of friendship is included in sociology, social psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and zoology. Various theories of friendship have been proposed, among which are social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles.

Some Quotes for Friendship:
"Friends always show their love. What are brothers for if not to share troubles?"- Proverbs 17:17
 
"Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers."
- Proverbs 18:24 

"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shall drink it with pleasure."
- Sirach 9:10 

"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."
- Proverbs 24:26
 
"A friend means well, even when he hurts you. But when an enemy puts his hand round your shoulder - watch out!"
- Proverbs 27:6 

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes 

"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him."
- Emily Dickinson 

"The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them."
- John 15:13 

"A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope."
- sent by Chris 

""A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure."
- Sirach 6:14 


"Cherish your friend, keep faith in him"
- Sirach 27:17 ( sent by Melanie Eilers) 


"Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time."
" Faithful friends are beyond price: No amount can balance their worth
- Bible ( Old Testament ) Sirach 6:15 

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."
- Proverbs 27:19

NB: Brendan Johnston notes that this passage usually reads: "As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man."
"A friend loveth at all times."
- Proverbs 17:17 

"Does it make me a stranger that my best friend was born in a manger?"
-dcTalk's song 'Jesus Freak'
 
"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance."
-Proverbs 27:17 -Sent in by Frankie 

"Friends in Christ are friends forever"
-Sent in by Haley 

"Friends are friends forever, if the Lord is the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never, cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands I know
That a lifetime's not too long... to live as friends."
-Michael W Smith - Sent in by Kellene


"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton 

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin 

"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson 

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell 

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro 

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts 

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha 

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies). Sent by clovers 

"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam 

"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- sent by Steve 

"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation" (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes) 

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes)


"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard 

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon 

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes 

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
- Mary Catherwood 

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis 

"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel."
- Logan Pearsall Smith 

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
- (sent by Dior Yamasaki) 

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln, (sent by Heather Myers) 

"The love of my life is the love between friends."
- (sent by Jess) 

"One's best friend is oneself."
- (sent by Jess) 

"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"
- (sent by Heather Tallent) 

"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
- Guido 

The following Girl Scouts Motto has been submitted by many people in varying forms, so I've just placed the three most popular versions on:
1) "Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold"
2) "Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold."
3) "Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold"

4}"I have a hand, and you have another; put them together and we have each other."

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
- (sent by Steve Klaka) 

"Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you."
- (sent by Steve Klaka) 

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli 

"Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background."
-Claudette Renner 

"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow."
-Cher 

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
-Goethe 



"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really friends."

"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
- Francois Mocuriac - Sent in by spiff 

"Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours."
- (sent by Jennifer Chen) 

"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
- "Pizza Place Sign", (sent by Rory Bristol) 

The following 5 quotes were sent by Danielle N. Redfield - Thanks!! :) :)
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius 

"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."

"True friendship is never serene."
- Mariede Svign 

"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrick 

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (sent by Julio Fung) 

"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
- Collins English Dictionary 

"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
- Emma Stacey 

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
- Oscar Wilde 

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare 

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt 

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa 

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin 

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle 

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain 

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero 

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert 

for more: http://www.friendship.com

We are The World (Song for Haiti Victims)

Haiti one of the country who have people that have great hope in their heart. May God Bless them despite what had happen.

[Justin Bieber]
There comes a time
When we heed a certain call

[Nicole Scherzinger & Jennifer Hudson]
When the world must come together as one

[Jennifer Hudson]
There are people dying[Jennifer Nettles]
And it’s time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

[Josh Groban]
We can’t go on
Pretending day by day

[Tony Bennet]
that someone, somehow will soon make a change

[Mary J Blige]
We are all a part of
God’s great big family
And the truth, you know love is all we need

[Chorus]
[Michael Jackson]
We are the world
We are the children

[Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson]
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving

[Barbra Streisand]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Miley Cyrus]
Send them your heart
So they’ll know that someone cares

[Enrique Iglesias]
so their cries for help
will not be in vain

[Nicole Scherzinger]
We can’t let them suffer
no we cannot turn away

[Jamie Foxx]
Right now they need a helping hand

[Wyclef Jean]
Nou se mond la
We are the Children

[Adam Levine]
We are the ones who make a brighter day
so lets start giving

[Pink]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives

[BeBe Winans]
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Michael Jackson]
When you’re down and out
There seems no hope at all

[Usher]
But if you just believe
There’s no way we can fall

[Celine Dion]
Well, well, well, well, let us realize
That a change can only come

[Fergie]
When we stand together as one

[Chorus - All]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving

[Nick Jonas]
Got to start giving

[All]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives

[Toni Braxton]
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Mary Mary]
We are the world
We are the children

[Tony Bennet]
Its for the children

Isaac Slade]
We are the ones who make a brighter day

[Toni Braxton]
So lets start giving

[Lil Wayne]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Chorus - All]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving

[Akon]
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we make a better day
Just you and me

[T-Pain]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving

[Jamie Foxx imitating Ray Charles]
Choice were making
saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day
Just you and me

[Rapping - LL Cool J, Will-I-Am, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Swizz Beatz]
We all need somebody that we can lean on
when you wake up look around and see that your dreams gone
when the earth quakes we’ll help you make it through the storm
when the floor breaks a magic carpet to stand on
we are the World united by love so strong
when the radio isn’t on you can hear the songs
a guided light on the dark road your walking on
a sign post to find the dreams you thought was gone
someone to help you move the obstacles you stumbled on
someone to help you rebuild after the rubble’s gone
we are the World connected by a common bond
lyrics courtesy of www.killerhiphop.com
Love the whole planet sing it along

[Wyclef]
CABARETT

[Chorus - All]

[Kanye West]
Everyday citizens
everybody pitching in

[Singing - Children & Wyclef Jean]
Nou se mond la
nou se timoun yo

[Will-I-Am]
You and I
You and I

[Kanye West]
Uh, 12 days no water
whats your will to live?

[Will-I-Am]
we amplified the love we watching multiply

[Kanye West]
Feeling like the Worlds end
we can make the World win

[Will-I-Am]
Like Katrina, Africa, Indonesia
and now Haiti needs us, the need us, they need us

[Chorus - All]
[Wyclef Jean]
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
lyrics courtesy of www.killerhiphop.com

Read more: http://www.killerhiphop.com/we-are-the-world-25-for-haiti-lyrics/#ixzz1SzSbQcdt

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