According to some researchers you now have a better reason than ever to drink coffee.  Yeah, as if you needed a reason.  It is thought to lessen the pain of working out.

Personally I have my own method for using coffee to lessen the pain of working out.  I stare intently at the machines, pick up my coffee cup, and walk away.  So I can personally attest to the fact that coffee has helped me overcome any workout pain.
Anyway, apparently caffeine keeps the nerves from registering a certain amount of pain.  This means that you can work out more, and ignore …read more

I want you to know, dear readers, that I have checked my facts on this.  More than once. It is apparently true, or at least a very good possibility.
The caffeine in your pee is bleaching the coral reefs.

Apparently the cleaning process that wastewater goes through at sewage plants does not effectively get the caffeine out of our personal wastewater.  It leaves up to three percent of our caffeine out-go in the cleansed water.  The water is released into the environment and finds it’s way into the ocean.
Well caffeine in the ocean apparently means more than buzzing tuna. Yep.  Apparently the …read more

Tonight has been rather eventful.  Or, excuse me, this morning has been rather eventful.  I planned on being up late, and jokingly said I was pulling an all nighter.  Well, it wasn’t a joke.

About three this morning I heard one of the goats going nuts and so I went out to check it out.  When I came in a little over an hour and a half later, I smelled like goat and we had added FOUR baby goats to our farm.. Thank God for solar powered lights in the barn.
I think on is a female and the rest male.  The …read more

If you remember that Irish Spring commercial then you are old.
I remember it.
Ahem….Anyway the University of Barcelona has done a study on the effects of a strong cup of coffee on men and women.
For the study they used 668 volunteers.  This is odd.  Why not 670?  665? Nope.  668.  Healthy volunteers.
And I think it was weird they felt the need to say “healthy volunteers.”  I mean who chooses sick people to test coffee?

 
YAY!
According to researchers having two to three cups of coffee a day reduces, or delays the risk of breast cancer depending on the gene variant a woman has.
The research was done on over 460 breast cancer patients.  Researchers found that coffee

 
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O.k..so I don;t watch my caffeine intake, but I have friends that do….one was amazed when he found out that there was caffeine in the hot chocolate he was drinking.
“AHA!” Sez I, I sez, ” maybe the readers on Kettle and Cup would like to know what they are ingesting caffeine- wise. ”
So…Here ya are…The average amounts of caffeine in various drinks.