I am in love, it’s true. The object of my affection is dark and usually roasted and has the ability to make anyone’s nerves go on end causing one to stay awake for hours into the night. On cool winter evenings all I want to do is snuggle up in a blanket and have it with me, warm in my hands. The object of my affection is coffee. Guys may come and go but my one constant love is coffee. I admit it, I am a coffee whore. I have it in the morning when I wake up, I have it at lunch, I have it after school, I have it while I’m doing my homework, I have it before I go to work, I have it when I’m bored, I have it whenever I want. In fact I have it with me right now. Coffee, Coffee, Coffee. Sad thing is despite being so “interested” in coffee I don’t really know much about it apart from the fact that it is delicious and made out of coffee beans. So for this post I decided to learn more about Coffee.
- Coffee is the second most widely used product in the world. It comes after oil
- Coffee is consumed at a rate of 1400 million cups a day. (They clearly haven’t met me yet…)
- Short-term effects of coffee include a more rapid and clearer flow of thought as well as a “greater sustained intellectual effort and a more perfect association of ideas”. However it also includes an increase of heart rates, diluted blood vessels, restlessness, irritability, insomnia and twitching muscles (That explains a lot)
- A longitudinal study in 2009 shows that those who consume a moderate amount of coffee or tea at midlife were less likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in late-life compared to those who drank little to no coffee
- Caffeine is said to be an anti depressant and apparently blocks effects of certain nerves in the brain that then reduce feelings of depression. In fact the intake of coffee has been said to be linked to the decrease in suicide rates.
To all you coffee haters out there I’m sorry. Coffee just happens to be my cup of tea.
