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Caffeine - Coffee - Soft Drinks

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Caffeine more disruptive for daytime sleep "Caffeine has a stronger disruptive effect on daytime, catch-up sleep after a night of sleep deprivation than it does on a normal night's sleep, a new study shows."

Cola Raises Women's Osteoporosis Risk

Excess Sweet Drinks Put Kids at Risk " Drinking lots of soda and juice drinks may put kids' health at risk -- leading to poor health and teen obesityobesity as young as age 13, a U.S. study shows."

Groups Want Sodas With Benzene Out Of Schools ". Food and Drug Administration findings that some soft drinks contain benzene, a carcinogen."

New Guidelines Say Cut Back on Sodas

Regular Consumption of Cola May Be Linked to Hypertension in Women

Soda, Benzodiazepine Use May Cause Heartburn During Sleep

Some coffee drinkers risk a real jolt

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Coffee -- Grounds For Concern?

The weight of evidence suggests that soft drinks are a major issue in childhood and adolescent obesity. "The evidence linking soft-drink consumption to weight gain and obesity, while not complete, is consistent and strong enough to support action. Soft drinks are consumed in large amounts by young people in Australia and thus the calls for curbing intake appear to be justified. As soft drinks have been linked to other health concerns such as dental disease and, moreover, provide no valuable nutrition (apart from fluids), there is potentially much to be gained by reducing the intake of these (and other) sugar-sweetened beverages by Australian children and little (except excess weight) to be lost."

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Beverage intake among preschool children and its effect on weight status. (Pediatrics. 2006)

Caffeine Attenuates Delayed-Onset Muscle Pain and Force Loss Following Eccentric Exercise. (J Pain. 2006)

Caffeine decreases exercise-induced myocardial flow reserve. (J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006)

Coffee and health: a review of recent human research. (Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2006) "Coffee is a complex mixture of chemicals that provides significant amounts of chlorogenic acid and caffeine. Unfiltered coffee is a significant source of cafestol and kahweol, which are diterpenes that have been implicated in the cholesterol-raising effects of coffee. The results of epidemiological research suggest that coffee consumption may help prevent several chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes mellitus, Parkinson's disease and liver disease (cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma). . coffee consumption is associated with increases in several cardiovascular disease risk factors, including blood pressure and plasma homocysteine. . currently available evidence suggests that it may be prudent for pregnant women to limit coffee consumption to 3 cups/d providing no more than 300 mg/d of caffeine to exclude any increased probability of spontaneous abortion or impaired fetal growth."

Coffee Consumption and Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women. A Prospective Cohort Study (Circulation 2006)

Coffee consumption and risk of total and cardiovascular mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes. (Diabetologia. 2006)

Coffee Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (Arch Intern Med. 2006) "Conclusion Coffee intake, especially decaffeinated, was inversely associated with risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in this cohort of postmenopausal women."

[Coffee consumption and the decreased risk of diabetes mellitus type 2] (Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2006)

Coffee, CYP1A2 Genotype, and Risk of Myocardial Infarction (JAMA 2006) "Conclusion Intake of coffee was associated with an increased risk of nonfatal MI only among individuals with slow caffeine metabolism, suggesting that caffeine plays a role in this association."

Colas, but not other carbonated beverages, are associated with low bone mineral density in older women: The Framingham Osteoporosis Study. (Am J Clin Nutr. 2006) "CONCLUSIONS: Intake of cola, but not of other carbonated soft drinks, is associated with low BMD in women."

Consumption of coffee is associated with reduced risk of death attributed to inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases in the Iowa Women's Health Study (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2006) "Conclusions: Consumption of coffee, a major source of dietary antioxidants, may inhibit inflammation and thereby reduce the risk of cardiovascular and other inflammatory diseases in postmenopausal women."

Consumption of coffee, but not black tea, is associated with decreased risk of premenopausal breast cancer. (J Nutr. 2006)

Consumption of soft drinks and hyperactivity, mental distress, and conduct problems among adolescents in Oslo, Norway. (Am J Public Health. 2006) "CONCLUSIONS: High consumption levels of sugar-containing soft drinks were associated with mental health problems among adolescents even after adjustment for possible confounders."

Effects of acute administration of caffeine on vascular function. (Am J Cardiol. 2006)

Enamel erosion by soft drinks with and without abrasion. (Br Dent J. 2006)

High caffeine intake in adolescents: associations with difficulty sleeping and feeling tired in the morning. (J Adolesc Health. 2006)

Immediate erosive potential of cola drinks and orange juices. (J Dent Res. 2006) "The erosive potential within the first minutes of exposure was determined solely by the pH of the drink, and the erosive potential was ten-fold higher in cola drinks compared with juices. However, salivary proteins reduced the erosive potential of cola drinks by up to 50%."

Intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain: a systematic review. (Am J Clin Nutr. 2006) "The weight of epidemiologic and experimental evidence indicates that a greater consumption of SSBs is associated with weight gain and obesity. Although more research is needed, sufficient evidence exists for public health strategies to discourage consumption of sugary drinks as part of a healthy lifestyle."

Maternal caffeine consumption and fetal death: a case-control study in Uruguay. (Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2006)

Soft drink consumption and excess weight gain in Australian school students: results from the Nepean study (International Journal of Obesity (2006)) "Intakes of soft drink/cordial in mid-childhood, but not fruit juice/fruit drink and milk, were associated with excess weight gain in early adolescence."

The findings from these two large prospective cohort studies do not support the hypothesis that coffee consumption lowers the risk of colorectal cancer. (American Journal of Epidemiology 2006) "The findings from these two large prospective cohort studies do not support the hypothesis that coffee consumption lowers the risk of colorectal cancer."

The possible role of sugar-sweetened beverages in obesity etiology: a review of the evidence (International Journal of Obesity (2006))

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