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You don't necessarily have to bring fresh beans to the gym. A simple Nescafé instant coffee will serve the purpose, study shows. And it's going to work better than equal doses of straight caffeine. As a SuppVersity  reader you will know that coffee is much more than a brown liquid that contains caffeine. Many of its proven health effects I have discussed here and in shorter news items on Facebook  are after all related to the combination of anti-oxidant and stimulant agents in coffee - a brew that is so much more than just the sum of it parts. Against that background it is only logical that Darren L. Richardson and Neil D. Clarke from the Department of Applied Sciences and  at the  Faculty of Health and Life Sciences of the  Coventry University in the UK wanted to expand on the previously reported results by Trexler et al. (2015 | previously mentioned at the SuppVersity ). You can learn more about coffee at the SuppVersity For Caffeine, Timing M...

While you don't have to bath in coffee, one cup per day is probably not enough to protect your mammary glands. Initially today's SuppVersity post was just about coffee and breast cancer risk. Today, a couple of days and a hand full of news on other interesting papers that are piling up by dozens in my archive, I found that the paper has proliferated ;-o Well, not exactly, but in conjunction with a recent meta-analysis on the potential anti-breast-cancer effects of coffee today's news certainly covers data from almost 380,000 women world-wide and will thus probably yield somewhat more reliable data on whatever relation may exist between a woman's coffee / caffeine consumption and her risk of developing breast cancer. It takes Canadian women at least 5 cups of coffee to elicit significant reductions in breast cancer risk Against that background, both the detailed 7-item sub-analysis of the data from the Women’s Diet and Health Study and the unique inclusion of ...

Image 1: Coffee is made of coffee beans! Hard to believe if you look at what remains of this precious superfood in a sachet with instant "coffee", right? But is instant, let alone "decaf" + instant really as bad as its rep? Although I know that probably not everyone is going to agree with that, I personally believe that coffee is one of the few real "superfood"... if it still is coffee and not some sort of adulterated lifestyle drink with synthetic caffeine and coffee-aroma. Those of you who like to enjoy their morning coffee (or tea) with tiny dose of SuppVersity news, will probable remember the " Warding Off Holiday Weight Gain "-posts in which I already broached the issue of the metabolic benefits of real coffee. With a coffee and a caffeine arm, the said rodent study did yet not provide any clues about the benefits or downsides of "decaf", i.e. de-caffeinated coffee, the supposedly "healthier" alternative to the stimu...