> Caffeine and Coffee:

1. Caffeine makes you feel brighter and more alert, increases gastric secretion, makes you urinate more and stimulates respiration.
2. Caffeine increases vigilance and heightens the ability to perform various tasks.
3. Caffeine quickens reaction time and can enhance both hand-eye coordination and the capacity of the muscles to work. This boost to overall endurance has led to its use by cyclists and runners.
4. Caffeine is useful to people with asthma.

> Why do smokers drink more coffee?:

1. Heavy smoker’s clean caffeine twice as fast, which might be one of many reasons that smoking and heavy coffee drinking have been strongly associated, smokers may need to consume more caffeine to feel the same effects as non-smokers.

> Coffee and Pregnancy:

1. According to the 1980 FDA guidelines, daily consumption of over 300 milligrams of coffee might be risky during pregnancy, and lower levels cannot be guaranteed safe either.

> Anecdotes:

1. Observer Alex Levine noted: “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.”
2. Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
3. One pound of coffee in New York was worth as much as four acres of land. The year was 1683.
4. The French philosopher, Voltaire, reportedly drank fifty cups of coffee a day.
5. The “coffee break” in the American workplace came about during the World War II. Employers found that their employees would work longer and harder if they were supplied with a coffee break during their shifts. U.S. studies shortly thereafter reported that 10,000 marriages a year were directly traceable to romances, which began during these coffee breaks.
6. For reducing wrinkles and improving their skin, the Japanese have been known to bathe in coffee grounds fermented with pineapple pulp.
7. Among beverages, coffee ranks second in popularity to soft drinks, followed by beer and milk.
8. Women (if they are not pregnant) metabolize caffeine in an hour and a half, men in three hours.
9. How do you remove a coffee stain? Rinse in cool water, rub with liquid laundry detergent or paste of laundry detergent in water, and then launder.
10. Italians drink their espresso with sugar, the Germans and the Swiss drink their coffee with equal parts of hot chocolate. The Mexicans like their coffee with cinnamon, the Belgians with chocolate, the French with equal parts of hot milk. Ethiopians add a pinch of salt to their coffee. In the Middle East and Africa, cardamom and spices are added, while Australians add whipped cream. The Moroccans add peppercorns to their coffee.