But she added: “There are two sides to the debate and a wealth of scientific evidence suggests that moderate coffee consumption of four to five cups per day is perfectly safe for the general population and does have a beneficial effect on alertness and performance even in regular coffee drinkers.”
Well, I don’t drink coffee myself, but I certainly appreciate a “cuppa” tea just like every other stereotypical Brit. I don’t claim about whether the caffeine content is doing anything for me (there’s the theory that the anti-oxidents in tea are supposed to counteract the effects of caffeine), but I feel it’s the two sugars in it which help to boost up the blood sugar levels for a quick fix to keep ticking over till any carbohydrates (complex or otherwise) from breakfast can kick in.
This introduces my own personal theory into the necessity of biscuits. Now don’t laugh, I reckon we dunk them for a reason, those carbs in the wholemeal or oats (because lets face it, it’s dark chocolate digestives and Fox’s Butter Crinkle Crunch biscuits that are the best known to mankind) are bound to contain the complex carbohydrates that you hear are so important in breakfast cereals.
It’s for this very reason I find it particularly important for me to consume plenty of biscuits with my tea at work. And my slowly increasing waistline is surely just a bizzare coincidence.
On a vaguely related note, it’s been found (by some group of clever people or another), that apples are said to do a better job at keeping an individual at their most alert than anything caffeinated. So really, people should try this out, if not only to keep alert, or indeed to contribute towards the whole recommended “five a day” thing, but to keep the doctor away as the old adage so very clearly tells us.
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Hold the phones on the smugness….
But she added: “There are two sides to the debate and a wealth of scientific evidence suggests that moderate coffee consumption of four to five cups per day is perfectly safe for the general population and does have a beneficial effect on alertness and performance even in regular coffee drinkers.”
Signed, a committed coffee consumer 🙂
Well, I don’t drink coffee myself, but I certainly appreciate a “cuppa” tea just like every other stereotypical Brit. I don’t claim about whether the caffeine content is doing anything for me (there’s the theory that the anti-oxidents in tea are supposed to counteract the effects of caffeine), but I feel it’s the two sugars in it which help to boost up the blood sugar levels for a quick fix to keep ticking over till any carbohydrates (complex or otherwise) from breakfast can kick in.
This introduces my own personal theory into the necessity of biscuits. Now don’t laugh, I reckon we dunk them for a reason, those carbs in the wholemeal or oats (because lets face it, it’s dark chocolate digestives and Fox’s Butter Crinkle Crunch biscuits that are the best known to mankind) are bound to contain the complex carbohydrates that you hear are so important in breakfast cereals.
It’s for this very reason I find it particularly important for me to consume plenty of biscuits with my tea at work. And my slowly increasing waistline is surely just a bizzare coincidence.
On a vaguely related note, it’s been found (by some group of clever people or another), that apples are said to do a better job at keeping an individual at their most alert than anything caffeinated. So really, people should try this out, if not only to keep alert, or indeed to contribute towards the whole recommended “five a day” thing, but to keep the doctor away as the old adage so very clearly tells us.