What You Said: How You Get Your Caffeine Fix. Earlier this week we asked you to share how you get your daily caffeine fix—your caffeine workflow if you will—now we’re back to highlight your caffeine swilling habits.
Many readers were what we would call caffeine opportunists—any port in a storm if the brew was hot or the cola jolting. Steve-O-Rama writes: 1cc syringe, straight to the arm. 8) j/k I’ve got a variety of methods, and it mostly depends upon the ratio of motivation to laziness as to which I use on a particular morning. If I don’t wanna muck about with it too much at all, I let Mr. Coffee take care of it. Consuming a wide variety of sources wasn’t an unusual facet of the comments, but there it gets a little more serious is where readers started talking about skipping the liquid transport all together and just nailing back raw caffeine: 1 200mg when I wake up.
For an odd blend of skipping the liquid and still getting the caffeine we can turn to John Raguso’s comment: How-To-Change-Your-Own-Batteries5-The-Coffee-Report.pdf (application/pdf Object) Your Daily Coffee May Increase Insulin Resistance. A growing body of research suggests that caffeine disrupts glucose metabolism and may contribute to the development and poor control of type 2 diabetes, a major public health problem.
A review article in the inaugural issue of Journal of Caffeine Research: The International Multidisciplinary Journal of Caffeine Science, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers, examines the latest evidence, contradicting earlier studies suggesting a protective effect of caffeine. James Lane, PhD, Duke University, describes numerous studies that have demonstrated caffeine's potential for increasing insulin resistance (impaired glucose tolerance) in adults that do not have diabetes, an effect that could make susceptible individuals more likely to develop the disease. In adults with type 2 diabetes, studies have shown that the increase in blood glucose levels that occurs after they eat carbohydrates is exaggerated if they also consume a caffeinated beverage such as coffee. Better Lives in Better Coffee. CoffeeScience.org - index_html. Caffeine Makes Us Easier to Persuade.
Experiment finds caffeine drinkers more influenced by a persuasive message than a placebo group.
Eighty per cent of adults in the US and the UK are moderate users of the psychoactive drug, caffeine. Of all the effects it has on our minds—enhanced attention, vigilance and cognition—perhaps least known is its tendency to make us more susceptible to persuasion. This was demonstrated in a study by Pearl Martin and colleagues at the University of Queensland in Australia (Martin et al., 2005). In their experiment they tried to convince participants to change their minds about the controversial issue of voluntary euthanasia. Participants were told that some in the university agreed that people should be allowed to end their own lives under certain circumstances, while others did not.
Attitude adjuster Before the attempt to change their minds, half the participants were given moderate doses of caffeine, while the other half took a placebo. Pay attention! But why? Image credit: illuminaut. Book Discussion: The Great Good Place. This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place.
Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Facebook discussion board here. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
The SLHC is a museum that tells the story of the Schwenkfelders, a small German protestant sect who emigrated from Europe in the 1700s and settled in Montgomery County. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community? Coffee and coffee shops - Belief in Dialogue (3/6) Office Coffee Delivery Service.