Cut down on coffee!

Bon

I believe the benefits are there for athletic performance & endurance when caffeine is consumed prior to working out. ACG, it's probably likely that organic products are much better for you.. but, I don't think it's of major health concern, I think a bigger issue is people's acidic-based nutrition which are lacking in fresh fruit & vegies to give them an alkaline balance.

askthecoffeeguy

I I think a bigger issue is people's acidic-based nutrition which are lacking in fresh fruit & vegies to give them an alkaline balance.

I agree, the health giving properties of nutrition often seems to be an afterthought in the scheme of things, instead of a primary motivational factor. ACG

mimmo124

I read that the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) was doing some research into caffine and fat metabolism. Apparently caffine ingestion before a workout makes your body metabolise stored fat cells for energy generation rather than using up glycogen stores in your muscles as the primary energy source. I am not a sports scientist so I can't tell you exactly how it works but as others have said, "it was on the internet so it must be true" ;-) Mimmo

askthecoffeeguy

I can tell you that I cycle 50km to work and back ea day and that a short double espresso before heading home is like rocket fuel!~ ACG

mimmo124

Caffeine and Athletic Performance Despite considerable research in this area, the role of caffeine as a performance enhancing drug is still controversial. Some of the data are conflicting, which is in part due to how the experimental studies were designed and what methods were used. However, there is general agreement in a few areas: Caffeine does not appear to benefit short term, high intensity exercise (eg. sprinting) Caffeine can enhance performance in endurance sports. Glycogen is the principal fuel for muscles and exhaustion occurs when it is depleted. A secondary fuel, which is much more abundant, is fat. As long as there is still glycogen available, working muscles can utilize fat. Caffeine mobilizes fat stores and encourages working muscles to use fat as a fuel. This delays the depletion of muscle glycogen and allows for a prolongation of exercise. The critical time period in glycogen sparing appears to occur during the first 15 minutes of exercise, where caffeine has been shown to decrease glycogen utilization by as much as 50%. Glycogen saved at the beginning is thus available during the later stages of exercise. Although the exact method by which caffeine does this is still unclear, caffeine caused sparing in all of the human studies where muscle glycogen levels were measured. The effect on performance, which was observed in most experimental studies, was that subjects were able to exercise longer until exhaustion occurred.

http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/caffeine.html Then I found this...

Caffeine is a substance that binds to a part of the cell and enables fat to leave the cell more easily and spare glycogen (the main muscle energy source). It is hypothesized that fat will be metabolized much faster if you have some caffeine and then go exercise. However, this works ONLY when the person who is tested does not use caffeine on a regular basis. These rare people are called ?caffeine blind,? the 85% of Americans who do consume some form of caffeine (such as coffee, soda, tea, and products like Red Bull) are not going to see benefits.

So take from this what you may. I tend to think that espresso consumption has many health benefits on its own, seperate from the caffine side of the drink. of course only if consumed in moderation.....for me 2-3 a day. Mimmo

nzroaster

Organics???? I hope you realise that Organic does not equal un-sprayed/tampered. Every green bean imported into Australia is sprayed with pestacide. Organic certification can still be obtained due to certain substances being organic, this does not mean they are any better or less harmful than non-organic. Look into it and see what passes as organics, it is very shocking!!!

askthecoffeeguy

yes but surely there are their different grades, just as there are for all types of coffee... ACG

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