Life With And Without Coffee

Coffee contains many different compounds and not just caffeine alone. Therefore, consumption of coffee results in diverse health outcomes. This means that coffee can have its advantages and disadvantages.

Specific purpose: Being students, many of us drink coffee throughout our days to get to the weekend. I want to give some insight on the history of coffee as well as the positives and negatives it has on our bodies.

In looking at the history of coffee through the book Uncommon Grounds, we have seen coffee move throughout the world. Coffee originated in Ethiopia and grown wildly that was discovered by a goat name Kaldi. It was first eaten as a berry, then boiled, then roasted and finally, grinded to what we now know drink today and have created new ways to drink it as well. Coffee is the second most traded commodity and is grown in the Southern Hemisphere and consumed in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in the United States, it is evident that Americans love their coffee and drink it many times throughout the day. It can be argued that the “world coffee supply would continue to grow, stimulated in large part by the seemingly bottomless American coffee cup.”

The active chemical in coffee is caffeine, and too people coffee is used to increase the heart rate or give people an increase in energy. The effect coffee has on people varies between people, the affect one cup of coffee may have on one person wouldn’t be enough to have an effect on another person.

I was struggling to find a research topic that affected my day to day life while also being plant related. In the beginning, I was unclear but the answer was in my face the entire time. First, I am a college student and far from a morning person. Second, I work at Dunkin ' Donuts. Lastly, I consume it 6 days a week. Coffee plays a huge role in my life. It is a great topic to research and it is plant related. As I approached my research, I thought I would start with what I know: the coffee bean. Right away, I learned that coffea (scientific name) is a type of flowering plant. It is a part of the rubiaceae family and can be spotted by its simple, opposite leaves and interpetiolar stipules. These plants are natives of Southern Africa and

The origination of caffeine is discussed in an article “Caffeine and You” at WordPress.com it states that “caffeine was first extracted from cocoa beans into its purest form, a white powder, in the 1820s by a German Scientist named Friedrich Ferdinand Runge. Today caffeine is easily extracted and used to make a variety of products that are consumed on a daily basis”. It also goes on to state that “each country has its own story and source of caffeine. One of the most eccentric caffeine findings was in Ethiopia. The folk stories passed between generations, says that a farmer, who had recently moved his goats to a new pasture found them to be restless, and antsy. For the next few days, he watched them and noted that they were grazing on small berries. These berries were later dried and called “coffee

Coffee can be good for you because it wards away diabetes. According to Kris Gunnars, “The studies show that people who drink the most coffee have a 23-50% lower risk of getting this disease, one study showing a reduction as high as 67%.” People who drink a lot of coffee have a less chance of getting type 2 diabetes. If type 2 diabetes runs in your family and you drink coffee, you will have a less chance of getting it. Another reason why coffee wards away diabetes is according to www.Healthline.com, “Researchers

How many of you drink coffee? Do you drink coffee on a daily basis? Or do you drink coffee when needed? Such as late night studying, early exams, or to even just give you enough energy to last for the day? Well, coffee is said to not be bad for you and could actually give you lifelong benefits, but only if you drink it moderately to it is recommended intake.

    The picture may seem familiar. Tumbling out of bed and stumbling around in the kitchen-you begin your day. But wait. It cannot begin properly without that daily ritual, the morning cup of coffee. The aroma swirls throughout the room. What can compare to the richness and fullness of that first cup of coffee?

With an increase of Arabica prices after the Brazilian frost in 1997, roasting companies experimented with steam cleaning techniques to hide any bitter flavoring of Robusta when mixing with Arabica. These roasters were also educating themselves on how to use lower quality grades of coffee mixes; thus providing use for previously discarded beans to be sold to roasters who demanded a lower quality beans.

People all over the world wake up to a cup of coffee but is this harmful or beneficial? Research shows that the pros to coffee, at responsible amounts per day, outweigh the cons or negative effects of coffee and even have the same effects as medicines given over the counter at pharmacy or even prescribed by a pharmacist. Many people just drink coffee without even knowing the location of where coffee began but this can be very crucial to the understanding to finding the benefits of coffee.

Coffee has a very mysterious history. There are several legends about who discovered it, but no one is completely sure who discovered it. Many historians disagree on where and when it spread, but there are some interesting theories. The main questions about coffee are where did it come from, where did it go, who tried to stop it, who helped it, how it is grown and harvested, and pricing.

Coffee trees were first introduced by the French which were located near the capital of Kenya, Nairobi. Nairobi was used as the nucleus around which Kenyan coffee growing developed. The British and European farmers became rich by farming coffee on the backs of the Kenyan workers. With more experience, Kenyan farmers became more and more powerful. With over 1 million Kikuyu tribe members calling it home they had real land claims according to the Europeans.

Depression, stress, workloads are outcomes from the overloading of the society. Because of the hard time limits of the schedule, office workers constantly get tired. People repeat the same procedures every day: get out from the bed, get ready to go to the office, drive to the office, work the whole day, drive home, and go to sleep. Society of the end of the 20th century was looking for a method to wake up, stay awake whole day, and keep working. This is the time when humanity chose coffee as a magical drink that can help solve all problems with tiredness, depressions, and stress. The effects of coffee were well known since it was found. It was medically proved that

Is there a better way to start one morning than with a freshly-brewed cup of coffee? Having coffee in the morning is the routine of millions of people around the world. The reason is very simple: it helps you wake up, clear your thoughts and prepare for the next busy day. Real coffee lovers like to make coffee for themselves.