“The busybodies at the FDA say the small amount of caffeine in gum is ‘very disturbing,’ but they’re not so foolish as to try to impose their wimpy ways on coffee.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Caffeine
Claim: Caffeine linked to low birth weight babies
The Food Police have been pushing this junk for almost 40 years, but no joy. This study doesn’t cut it either. A complex health outcome — e.g., birth weight — cannot be studied with unreliable, self-reported and/or partial data. Continue reading
Posted in Caffeine
Feds Raise Hackles Over 5-Hour Energy Drink
“The FDA, not known for its sense of humor, is planning a full-fledged probe into the product.” [Weekly Standard]
Posted in Caffeine
Chris Semsarian: Energy drinks: a trigger for heart attacks and stroke?
Energy drink consumption has grown exponentially over the past five to ten years. Sales are increasing at double the rate of total carbonated beverage sales. Continue reading
Posted in Caffeine, Food labeling, Health
Moms’ caffeine not tied to kids’ behavior problems
If your kindergartner is hyperactive, there’s no reason to blame the caffeine you had during pregnancy, new research suggests. Continue reading
Ian Musgrave: Longer Life Through Coffee Drinking?
There is a persistent belief that drinking coffee is bad for you. Some alternative medicine systems eschew all coffee drinking (but are enthusiastic about coffee enemas). Certainly if you overindulge the sleeplessness and tremors will remind you of the perils of too much of a good thing. Continue reading
Drink coffee, live longer: study
It may be nectar of the Gods (to some) but no, it is not a magical food Continue reading
Posted in Caffeine, Coffee, Magical food
Michael Shaw: Can caffeine become a drug of abuse?
This week’s HND piece looks at the world’s number one psychoactive drug, and those rare instances in which it actually can be abused. Continue reading
Cafédirect: Coffee crisis looms as climate impacts intensify
Your morning cup of coffee is likely to become significantly more expensive at the same time as quality levels “return to the 1950s”. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Caffeine, Climate Change
Tagged climate hysteria, weather superstition
Caffeine and exercise may be protective against skin cancer caused by sun exposure
In cancer-prone mice, that is. Continue reading
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NIH: Study shows caffeine consumption linked to estrogen changes
Will Starbucks be tobacco-ized for causing endometriosis, osteoporosis, and endometrial, breast, and ovarian cancers? Continue reading
Coffee prevents Lou Gehrig’s Disease?
Could this be a result that we (gasp) find interesting? Continue reading
Caffeine delays conception?
Let’s see if I can do this with some, ahem, decorum… do couples trying to get pregnant get to have more fun if the woman drinks lots of coffee, tea or cola? Continue reading
