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Benefits of drinking coffee

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Apart from being the most loved beverage all over the world, coffee has some health benefits too. Previously it was on food carcinogens list, but a lot of research has been done on coffee past few years and it's all been in favor of coffee. Many new health benefits are being discovered.  The most recent is “FILTERED COFFEE is tied to Lower Diabetes Risk in Metabolomics Study” There are so many varieties of coffee: espresso,filtered coffee,boiled coffee, Cappuccino, latte. But the filtered coffee has health benefits. In a Swedish case-control study, drinking filtered coffee was associated with a lower 10-year risk of developing type 2 diabetes than abstaining from coffee completely. While making filtered coffee the harmful metabolites  previously associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (diterpenes) present in coffee are stuck to the cloth used in making filtered coffee. Adults who drank two to three cups of filtered coffee a day...
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Myths about winter you should be aware of !

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Winter is here and everybody is trying to keep themselves warm. But we have some misconceptions about the winter. 1.   ALCOHOL keeps us warm! It starts with our “Chashmish Naina’’ drinking alcohol with our “Udana chahta hu Daudna chahta hu Hero Bunny’. Even Naina drinks alcohol to keep warm on that mountain trek. You booze,you lose (heat). Alcohol when taken in even small quantity cause vasodilation- meaning our blood carrying vessels dilate. It leads to more blood to flow through the vessels of fingers and toes and our extremities making us feel warm. But this way our core body temperature decreases making us more cold in reality. 2. We lose more heat from our heads. This notion was interpreted from the now infamous study in which volunteers visited the arctic with their heads exposed.But they were outfitted in gear designed to only expose their heads.So logically they will lose most of the heat through their heads only. This myth might not be true in the case...
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