Isn’t life better when you can combine two wonderful things? Swimming and sunshine. Dogs and cats. Chocolate and peanut butter. Coffee and…naps? You heard me. Coffee and naps. You likely love coffee, especially in the morning, and you likely also love naps, even if you don’t get to take them as often as you like. Well, this amazing new combination is here with us due to science.
Chilies are some of the most popular spices in the world. Chilies are both a food and a spice, or more accurately, a food that is used as a spice. Grown in warmer climates, chilis are integrated into the food of many cultures around the world. Jamaica, for example, is famous for using one of the hottest chilies around, the scotch bonnet.
Spicy chocolate is everywhere these days, ranging from chocolate bars to hot chocolate and mochas at coffee shops. All kinds of chocolate can be spicy, including white, milk, and dark. Dark chocolate is often used to make spicy chocolate. The spice comes from chili powders and other spices. Many people think that spicy chocolate has even more health benefits than plain chocolate.
It’s 2 pm. You’re sipping on coffee, and you’re not sure what number cup this is. Suddenly, you realize that the hand holding your coffee cup is shaking. You’re not cold or scared, but there your hand is, dancing a jig. Or maybe your eye is twitching uncontrollably, and you can’t stop tapping your foot. What’s going on? In this article, we’ll discuss coffee jitters, and what some good coffee alternatives with no jitters are.
There are plenty of research studies showing that caffeine and carbohydrates improve endurance. Endurance is how long an athlete can sustain activities, like playing in the game or running. However, endurance isn’t the only valued trait in athletic performance.
Dry eye syndrome is a common eye condition affecting about 4 million people age 50 and older in the United States. For many, dry eye syndrome is simply uncomfortable and annoying, but for others, it escalates into a vision-threatening disease.
The Ketogenic diet involves reducing carbs to almost zero and focuses instead on high fat and high protein foods. Good news for Keto dieters out there—even though many of the things you’re used to eating are no longer allowed, caffeine (from a sugar-free Mocca shot) and black coffee are Keto-friendly!
Hailing from Mayo Clinic, Dr. Michael Jensen is joining the Seattle Gummy Company (SGC) as a medical advisor. Dr. Jenson, who currently holds the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Professorship in Honor of Dr. Robert L. Frye at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, received his training in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, and Clinical Nutrition from the Mayo […]
It’s almost time for all of us to fall back with daylight savings time. While originally invented as a way to conserve fuel, back in the early nineteen hundreds, by Germany, it didn’t become fully standard in the US until 1966. One of the reasons that the first Sunday of November was chosen as the fall-back date for daylight savings time was to allow children more sunlit time for trick or treating on Halloween. Now that it’s here again, it’s time to prepare for scheduling blunders, difficulty sleeping, and perhaps feeling groggy in the morning.
It’s 2 pm. You can’t think. You might have made a mistake in a report, you keep having trouble saying words, and you’re reaching for a Mocca Shot energy gummy. This is a situation many of us find ourselves in daily and it has a name: brain fog. It goes by other names like cloudy brain and mental fatigue, but whatever you call it, it is annoying at best, and it can be dangerous at worst.