Posted by TheShot on 02 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
We should all feel thankful that, once in a rare while, the confusing morass of pop medical journalism is broken by the occasional intelligent voice of informed reason. Last month, the media had a feeding frenzy over a lone medical study linking caffeine to increased risk of miscarriage: Pregnancy Problems Tied to Caffeine. Today’s New [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 01 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
Many of you are probably more than already aware of this, but the latest trend in consumable marketing is something of an unholy marriage between food staples and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. It’s not just juice smoothies that promote mysterious “immunity boosts” anymore. It’s also things like fortified coffee.
And what’s with all this “energy boost” crap these [...]
Posted by TheShot on 11 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
Being popular is hard. No, this isn’t the plot for the next Legally Blonde sequel; it’s the message our society sends when changes in popular consumer tastes inevitably raise questions of product safety.
A decade ago, the advent of cellular phones inspired a wave of fear mongering when the Paranoid Whack Jobs (henceforth referenced as PWJs) [...]
Posted by TheShot on 21 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
If you ever wondered the depths at which some people can profit from human stupidity, today’s San Francisco Chronicle underscored the point: What’s New: Fortified organic coffee. (Thanks, Cindy Lee, for spreading the unchecked stupidity.) Yes, that “healthy coffee” thing, where foolish lemmings leap off cliffs in blind faith and obedience over health claims made [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 03 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
We are a nation of fabricated addictions. Not real addictions — to things like heroin, crack, or alcohol that require treatment programs, follow Addiction Severity Indexes, break families apart, and are highly correlated with crime and prison time. I’m talking about our inability to moderate personal consumption of relatively benign things. Things like caffeine, meat, [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 04 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
Will coffee marketing atrocities never cease? Of course not! Forget the transdermal patch, apparently the drug delivery mechanism of choice today is your good old cup of joe: WebWire | VitaBrew, enters fight against Osteoporosis and Diabetes type 2 with a Free Certified GNC and Eight O’ Clock Coffee Healthy Coffee recipe. I swear, I [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 26 May 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health
In another fine display of health care journalism’s single-issue myopia, a report came out this week that men who drink copious amounts of coffee lower their risk of gout: Coffee Lowers Gout Risk. What I find deliciously funny about this — and sadly funny at the same time — is that the article addresses coffee [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 18 May 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Robusta
The uncontrollable urge to assign shamanic powers of eternal life or instant death to coffee are still in full bloom. Last December, we reported on the UK introduction of CoffeeSlender (a.k.a. Café Bulimia), a coffee drink that claimed to help consumers lose weight through something called Svetol — a derivative of green coffee beans. Today [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 20 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
The bizarrely misplaced food freak-out continues, as we have people overlooking the environmental, energy consumption, and dietary/health horrors of the processed foods that make up 80% of today’s American diet — focusing instead on caffeine as the root of all evil. Today, TV station KERO in Bakersfield, CA reported that a coffee-drinking New York city [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 03 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends
The headline sounds like yet another addition to the popular “sexpresso” story that refuses to just go away. But today’s London Times noted a Rush University (Chicago) study that showed a regular stream of coffee in espresso-sized doses does more for alertness than the “supersized American-style beverage bucket” of morning coffee: Cup size is crucial [...]
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