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DailyDirt: Getting A Caffeine Fix Any Way You Can…
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Some people are seriously addicted to caffeine. Maybe you get headaches if you skip a morning cup of coffee or experience other symptoms of withdrawal, but if you’ve built up an extreme tolerance, you might need to start incorporating it into other habits. We’ve mentioned a few other products that come with a dose of caffeine, but here are a few more to try if you’re a real caffeine junky.
- If you can’t be bothered to brew your own coffee, maybe you’ll find chewable coffee snacks more to your liking. Gummy-bear-like chewables called Go Cubes deliver 50 mg of caffeine per cube, and two cubes apparently will give you a caffeinated kick for 4-6 hrs (presumably depending on your tolerance). The taste isn’t described like candy, so it’s a bitter coffee treat that kids probably won’t like too much. [url]
- If you’re planning to kill someone with an overdose of caffeine, you might want to buy some caffeinated peanut butter. STEEM Peanut Butter has 170 mg of caffeine per 2 tablespoons, so be careful how you make your PBJ sandwiches. [url]
- Power Energy Toothpaste will make your mornings brighter after a Daylight Savings Time change — with 80 mg per ml of toothpaste gel. The Indiegogo campaign for Power Toothpaste has been funded, so if you really need a caffeine fix as soon as possible in the morning, you can try this stuff. But maybe you should make sure you don’t brush your teeth with it right before you go to sleep at night. [url]
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Filed Under: caffeine, chewables, coffee, food, go cubes, peanut butter, power energy toothpaste, self-medication, toothpaste
Companies: indegogo
DailyDirt: Drinking The Most Expensive Coffee
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Some people really like to drink coffee and are willing to pay nearly any price to do so. There are probably cheaper ways to get caffeine into your system, but if you like the taste of coffee, you might want to try some exotic procedures that are meant to make the coffee drinking experience just so much better. Here are a few links on some cups of coffee you might want to try if you have the money.
- You’ve probably heard of the civet-poop coffee (aka Kopi Luwak) which is supposedly really good. But why not try a similar coffee from an elephant? Black Ivory Coffee isn’t really that expensive. A pack that brews about 30 cups of coffee only costs about $275 (without shipping and handling). [url]
- The ISSpresso machine is how astronauts get coffee (that isn’t instant coffee) on the International Space Station (ISS). The cost of getting a ticket to ride on the ISS is the hefty part. [url]
- Starbucks coffee is significantly more expensive in China. Chinese customers are simply willing to pay more for a cup of joe because it’s a luxury (and transportation costs are a bit high, though not ISS high), but the market for over-priced coffee might be drying up. [url]
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Filed Under: astronaut coffee, beverages, black ivory coffee, caffeine, coffee, elephants, food, isspresso, kopi luwak
Companies: starbucks
DailyDirt: This Is Your Brain On Caffeine. Any Questions?
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Making the perfect cup of coffee is an experiment that’s been studied for decades — if not for hundreds of years since coffee was first brewed in the 1300s. It’s not an exact science yet, but studies on coffee drinking seem to point to it being mostly beneficial. Here are just a few interesting links for coffee lovers out there.
- According to one study, you’re probably drinking too much coffee if you consume more than 28 cups per week. But if you’re over 55, it apparently doesn’t matter much to your health if you’re drinking more than that amount of coffee. So if you’re younger than 55 and drinking more than 4 cups every day, you just need to live a little longer and you can drink as much as you want. In fact, some other studies say coffee can lower the risk of premature death. [url]
- If you think that decaffeinated coffee is free of caffeine, think again. Decaf just has lower amounts of caffeine — 3 to 15 milligrams per cup versus 85 milligrams (or more) for regular coffee. Those milligrams can add up if you’re drinking a lot of decaf coffee. [url]
- Conventional wisdom says that pregnant women shouldn’t drink coffee (or drink alcohol or eat sushi), but maybe the risks of doing so aren’t that high? Better safe than sorry, though, right? [url]
- Even though people have been drinking coffee for centuries, the effect of coffee on our health isn’t really clear. Caffeine might not be the only active ingredient in coffee, and studies haven’t always separated out the smokers who seem to drink a lot of coffee. [url]
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Filed Under: caffeine, coffee, decaf, decaffeinated coffee, drinks, drugs, food, health, medicine, pregnant
DailyDirt: Breakfast of Champions…
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Breakfast is supposedly the more important meal of the day. But does it matter what you eat for breakfast? There are plenty of incredibly unhealthy-sounding breakfast menus, but people are always coming up with even more outrageous breakfast items. Here are just a few examples of how kids can start their day.
- PepsiCo has a breakfast soda called Kickstart — a Mountain Dew-flavored beverage with caffeine and some fruit juice and added vitamins. Are you a backer for 92 milligrams of caffeine in a 16oz can? [url]
- All kinds of deep fried foods can be found at county fairs, and deep fried breakfast cereals are no exception. Last year, the San Diego County Fair offered several kinds of breakfast cereals in a hot, crispy slightly chewy and delicious form (if you like fried stuff, and who doesn’t). [url]
- If there’s an important state-wide standardized test, students should eat a good breakfast before they take it — and they can get a free meal from McDonald’s for taking the FCAT (in Florida) in 3rd to 11th grade. And if anyone can correlate higher test scores with the students who ate at McDonald’s…. [url]
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Filed Under: breakfast, caffeine, cereal, fcat, food, fried, kickstart, mountain dew, soda
Companies: mcdonald's, pepsi
DailyDirt: Caffeine In Everything
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No one likes feeling drowsy when they want to be awake and alert. For centuries, folks have been self-medicating by drinking various beverages with caffeine (and Coca-cola originally had a more potent drug in it). We’ve come a long way from just boiling tea leaves in water, and here are just a few more ways caffeine is spreading into our lives.
- Inhalable caffeine isn’t really meant to be absorbed by the lungs, despite its name. Caffeine doesn’t really seem like a dietary supplement, either. [url]
- The Caffeine Zone app is supposed to help optimize when a person should ingest caffeine for maximal effects. But this simple app doesn’t take into account personal metabolisms — it just predicts how much caffeine will be left in your bloodstream after you enter in how much you drank, when and how fast. [url]
- The CDC and FDA have several warnings against caffeinated alcoholic beverages. But where are the warnings for a rum and Coke? [url]
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Filed Under: caffeine, cdc, fda, metabolism, rum and coke
Companies: coca cola
DailyDirt: To Seek Out New Life…
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The Earth’s biosphere has some incredible diversity, and biologists have hardly even begun to scratch the surface. There used to be just the Plant and Animal Kingdoms, and then there were as many as six “kingdoms of life” — but recent discoveries have made the classification of eukaryotes a bit messy for biologists to agree upon. Here are some examples of a couple of strange species and an ambitious project to create a virtual biosphere that could become as intricate as the one we live in.
- Spongiforma squarepantsii is a recently discovered fungus that looks like a sponge (but doesn’t live under the sea). It looks like biologists need more formal naming conventions. [url]
- Bacteria that can live on pure caffeine were found in a nice flowerbed in Iowa. And researchers have isolated the enzymes that can metabolize caffeine — potentially to be used in a new “organic” way to remove caffeine from coffee/tea. [url]
- Steve Grand isn’t trying to discover new life in the real world. He’s trying to build virtual lifeforms from “complex networks of virtual brain cells and biochemical reactions and genes.” The final product will be a video game called Grandroids — virtually descended from Grand’s popular 1996 game, Creatures. [url]
- To discover more interesting biological curiosities, check out what’s currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Filed Under: biosphere, caffeine, fungus, grandroids, life, steve grand