Coffee jump starts many of us, but slightly more important than that, longitudinal studies “show that drinking coffee cuts the risky of dying early from a heart attack or stroke,” writes the Harv. Bus. Rev., Vol. 86, June 2009 at 22. More, “coffee also appears to offer some small protection against Type 2 diabetes, gallstones and Parkinson’s disease.” I toast Javascript!
But I brim with enthusiasm for in-house productivity so my take-away about coffee is that “it causes feelings of well-being and increases energy, alertness and motivation. Functional MRI scans show that coffee activates parts of the brain involved in short-term memory, the kind that helps focus attention on tasks at hand.” Coffee, the New World elixir, is “brimming with antioxidants and other phytonutrients.” Gulp, no wonder I have a well-used Starbucks card (See my post of June 29, 2009: sleep and coffee with 10 references.).