Sipping a hot cup of coffee daily could give you more than a healthful lift of energy. The drink helps people live longer by warding off heart disease, a study has revealed. Researchers at the University of Athens have carried out the study and found that drinking a cup of coffee everyday improves elasticity of the arteries, which can stave off heart disease, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

In fact, the researchers have based their findings on an analysis of 485 people with high blood pressure.

The subjects of the study were all aged between 65 and 100 and longterm inhabitants of Greek island of Ikaria. It is known as the "land of longevity" and a third of residents reach the age of 90.

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Coffee The Secret To Long Life: Sipping a hot cup of coffee  daily could give you more than a healthful lift of energy. The drink helps people live longer by warding off heart disease, a study has revealed. Researchers at the University of Athens have carried out the study and found that drinking a cup of coffee everyday improves elasticity of the arteries, which can stave off heart disease, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

In fact, the researchers have based their findings on an analysis of 485 people with high blood pressure. The subjects of the study were all aged between 65 and 100 and long term inhabitants of Greek island of Ikaria. It is known as the "land of longevity" and a third of residents reach the age of 90.

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Israel's 14 branches of the Coffee Bean chain were ordered closed by the international franchise as of yesterday, after local franchise holder City Food violated their agreement and fell behind in payments. The local franchise holder owes several hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But there's a catch: Coffee Bean restaurants in Israel are themselves franchises of City Food. After signing 10-year agreements in January, shutting them down would violate these agreements.  The U.S.-based coffee house franchise informed City Food in July that it had until yesterday to shutter the branches.

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Coffee futures contracts trading on the Indian commodity exchanges need to induct available varieties in the market with reduction of lot size to make it more liquid in exchanges in the near future.Spreading more awareness among planters and traders regarding coffee futures market for an appropriate price discovery is also needed.

“There should be more coffee varieties being traded in the exchanges to make future contracts liquid with sound growth in volume,” Babu Reddy, agricultural economist of Coffee Board of India said. He also said that awareness should be created among traders and planters to make coffee as an active contract.

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He fills the jug with cold milk, checks the temperature on the thermometer (it should be 32 F) and keeps the jug aside. He switches on the espresso machine and brews the ground coffee into the white primo cup, then turns on the steam muzzle and fills the milk jug with foam.

After banging (breaking the air bubbles) and swirling (mixing the froth), he pours the milk into the primo cup and sprinkles chocolate powder on the top. The cappuccino is ready to be served. Ajeet Singh Chauhan, 28, has made the morning’s first coffee. We meet him at a Costa Coffee outlet in Green Park, South Delhi.

A lanky man with a shy smile, Chauhan is flying to Dubai next week for the regional finals of the ‘Barista of the Year’ competition, a championship that the international coffee chain outlet is conducting to select its best barista.coffeeBarista is the Italian word for ‘bartender’ and is used for a person who makes and serves coffee.

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The July 2010 Saturday Coffee with Yuma City Councilman Raul Mendoza is scheduled for this Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Coffee Bean, 2450 S. 4th Ave. in the Crescent Center. Mendoza holds the no-host coffee the third Saturday of each month to meet with city residents face-to-face and hear their concerns regarding any issues facing the city, such as streets, parks, development, vehicle traffic and public safety. Residents are also encouraged to provide ideas and/or suggestions to make the city of Yuma a better and safer place to live.

No appointments are necessary. Last month's discussion covered topics related to the city budget, Yuma County's public transit system, adopt-a-street and adopt-a-basin, road construction along Avenue 3E and 24th Street and traffic concerns in the city.

The ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Co-operatives has allowed coffee growers to sell their crop at international auctions. The deputy minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Co-operatives, Dr Mathayo David, told the National Assembly in Dodoma yesterday that the government had put in place plans aimed at securing handsome prices for local coffee at international markets and with individual buyers.

The minister was answering a question asked by Savelina Mwijage (Special Seats—CCM) who had wanted to know what the government was doing to prevent coffee growers from selling their cash crop at throw-away prices.

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There is a best way – mathematically– to pour your second cup of coffee, says a study called Recursive Binary Sequences of Differences that will appeal to anyone who is truly pernickety about their beverages.But no one realised it until the year 2001, when Robert M Richman published his simple recipe in the journal Complex Systems. During the subsequent passage of nine years and billions of cups of coffee, the secret has been available to all.

"The problem is that the coffee that initially comes through the filter is much stronger than that which comes out last, so the coffee at the bottom of the pot is stronger than that at the top," says Richman. "Swirling the pot does not homogenise the coffee, but using the proper pouring pattern does."

Here's all you have to do. Prepare coffee – two cups' worth – in a carafe. Now get two mugs, call them A and B. Then: "If one has the patience to make four pours of equal volume, the possible pouring sequences are AABB, ABBA, and ABAB."

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 Health-conscious coffee drinkers just got a little pick-me-up. Last week, livescience.com highlighted a number of recent studies demonstrating the various health benefits regular coffee drinkers enjoy. Among the advantages were:

A 39 percent decreased risk of head and neck cancer (according to Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention), diminished risk of coronary heart disease (Harvard Medical School), and the prevention of memory loss (University of Lisbon).  Then again, contradictory reports concluding negative consequences to drinking coffee come out about as frequently as a new Starbucks opens.

Espresso enthusiasts from around the Inland area discussed how the findings affected their love of latte. "I pretty much drink coffee every day with a little bit of guilt. ... this puts me at ease," said Riverside resident Brittany Pierce, lounging on a couch at Riverside's Back to the Grind. "I have a couple of friends down on coffee, so now I can tell them this."

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Many swear by their daily cup of java to kick-start their brains in the morning or increase alertness in the afternoons. But they may actually be kidding themselves if they think that coffee helps. Caffeine addiction is such a downer that regular coffee drinkers may get no real pick-me-up from their morning cup, according to a study by British scientists, which appeared recently in the Neuropsychopharmacology journal.

Bristol University researchers found that drinkers develop a tolerance to both the anxiety-producing and the stimulating effects of caffeine, meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them.

"Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine- containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal," wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol's department of experimental psychology.

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