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Men who drink five or more cups of green tea a day might reduce the risk of advanced prostate cancer by up to 50 percent compared to those who drink one cup a day, according to a study by researchers at Japan's National Cancer Center.
"This does not mean that people who drink green tea are guaranteed to have reduced risk of advanced prostate cancer," said Norie Kurahashi, a scientist who took part in the study. "We are just presenting our results. But the study does point to the hope that green tea reduces the risk of advanced prostate cancer."
Even if India’s 2007-08 coffee crop, currently being harvested, is the lowest in 10 years — 2,62,000 tonne, there will be no impact on domestic consumption, says Coffee Board chairman G V Krishna Rau. He believes that there can be no cut in domestic consumption, which he pegs at around 85,000 tonne a year.
The Coffee Board issues shipment-permits for exports after factoring in domestic consumption. Which leaves a balance of 1,77,000 tonne from the 2007-’08 crop for exports, quite a drop from the 2,49,000 tonne shipped out during the 2006-’07 fiscal.
Coffee exports have continued to take a downward trend as the coffee year comes to an end, according to the monthly released by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.
In September, the last month of the coffee year, coffee exports further dropped by 22.2 per cent, according to the report.
The report shows that coffee exports dropped from about 230,800 bags in August to about 179,400 bags in September. Similarly, the value of exports also dropped from $23.9 million in August to $18.3 million.
In August, coffee exports dropped by 14 per cent from more than 268,800 bags in July to about 230,850 bags, with the resultant fall in the value from $28.3 million in July to $23.9 million.
The Vietnamese government has imposed a higher quality specification for coffee exports as it moved to improve coffee standard. The new specification coded TCVN 4193:2005 will replace the old requirement TCVN 4193-93 and take effect immediately for all shipments, the government said in a report on Saturday.
Customs will test all coffee exports before shipping to find out if the exports meet TCVN 4193:2005 standard, the report said.
You might want to consider replacing your Green Eggs and Ham with Green Tea and Ham the next time you break your fast in the morning - or any other time, for that matter. It appears that a green tea diet may hold at least a few properties of those golden elixirs, fountains of youth, and magic potions we've all heard about over the years.
Green tea is recommended for the diet aid mainly because of its multifaceted effects on health. The major active component that attributes the properties to the green tea are the polyphenols such as catechin, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, gallaogatechin, epigallocatechin, and apigallocatechin gallate (known as EGCG).
The March coffee export volume grew by 70% to 265,399 60kilo-bags compared to 155,960 bags during the same month last year, the Uganda Coffee Development Authority has said in a report.
People who smoke cigarettes and drink coffee are less likely to have Parkinson's disease. The same can't be said of those who take aspirin.
Those are the conclusions of a new study co-authored by a researcher at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Despite the irony of seeming to say something nice about smoking, it's a perfectly serious study, says William Scott, Ph.D. epidemiologist at the UM medical school. And he's not suggesting you start, or continue, smoking.
The coffee break refuses to die. As more workers flee their cubicles to get a latte fix, the office coffee machine has become a forgotten stepchild. Of people who drink coffee at work, the percentage that drink the in-house brew dropped to 52 percent last year from 64 percent in 2003, according to the National Coffee Association, an industry group.
A team of American and German researchers have discovered that tea extracts can help reduce the skin damage caused by cancer radiation therapy.
It will cost Canadian taxpayers close to $4 million to set up a Tim Hortons franchise for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and maintain it for a year.
Global coffee giant Starbucks is denying Ethiopian coffee-farmers of $132 million a year by refusing them ownership of their coffee brands, international agency Oxfam says.
The Ethiopian government filed applications to trademark its famous coffee names Sidamo, Harar and Yirgacheffe in the US, Canada, Japan and European Union countries.
Study Shows Coffee Drinkers Have a Reduced Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
"Starbucks Barista Aroma" is embossed on the front of the stainless steel brewer, which has silver control buttons and a chrome finish. They were sold for about $100.
Uganda's tea export earnings are projected to grow by 20 per cent this year to earn about $47.6 million, a Uganda Tea Association official said last week.
Starbucks is zeroing in on merchandise sales for the upcoming holiday season. While sales of non-beverage items has remained relatively low in recent years, the company is bulking up its sales team to offer more variety in their sales than frapachinos and lattes. A morning cup of coffee may help prevent diabetes, a new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, U.S. Tuesday claimed; adding caffeine apparently has little to do with the effect. In the aftermath of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, this tiny hill nation's coffee industry also lingered near death. World prices for the country's unremarkable beans had bottomed out. Thousands of coffee farmers were dead. Century-old coffee plantations sat abandoned or were leveled to replant bananas. The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) is reporting that the farmers have not been able to secure insurance coverage for their crops and as a result could lose their livelihood in the event of a natural disaster. The JAS says the situation has become more alarming with the Hurricane Season now on.News January 2006 - March 2006