Coffee helps brain cancer
Recent testing shows that the caffeine in coffee (or green tea) may help curb the growth of brain cancer and may prevent the cancer from spreading. The results were based on animal testing and the equivalent of two to five cups of coffee per day.
It seems that all of the positive research on coffee is based on five cups per day. Maybe we need to change our name to JustFiveCups.
Coffee slows brain cancer growth
ANI, 2 February 2010, 11:28am IST
A group of scientists has said that caffeine found in coffee and green tea could effectively slow the growth of brain cancer
Coffee, green tea may slow brain cancer growth (Getty Images)
According to the researchers at the (South) Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), animal test results showed regular caffeine found in coffee and green tea to have strongly repressed the growth of inositol trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) closely linked to glioblastoma, which is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumour found in human. The research team, comprising of scientists from Seoul National University, Gyeongsang National University, and Emory University in Atlanta, said that calcium plays a primary role in spreading glioblastoma tumour cells in humans, and that IP3R directly contributes to the amount of calcium released.
They discovered a sub-type of IP3R, or IP3R3, to be very active among brain cancer patients and that caffeine stymies the spread of such compounds, resulting in less tumour growth in the brain and blocks cancer cells from spreading to other parts of the body, reports Xinhua. "This is the first type of discovery showing caffeine to have an inhibitive effect on the growth of glioblastoma, and thus, we expect it to have monumental impact on related studies," said Lee Chang-joon, who led the study. The researchers said that the amounts of caffeine used in the animal tests were somewhere in the range of two to five cups of coffee or green tea consumed on average by humans per day.
Good Rain Means Good Coffee Crop
Good news out of Brazil on the coffee bean front. Heavy rain at the right time this year means a potential record setting year for Brazil’s coffee crop. Of course, this is a quantity, not quality, record, so it doesn’t say anything about whether the coffee will be good, great, or terrible. But, records are nice anyway, so good luck Brazil! Hopefully it will mean lower prices as Brazil’s production is often correlated with coffee bean prices.
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Brazil Coffee Crop May Rise to Record 50 Million Bags (Update2)
By Katia Cortes and Iuri Dantas
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Coffee output in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer, may rise to a record this year as trees enter the higher-yielding half of their two-year cycle, Agriculture Minister Reinhold Stephanes said.
Output will rise to between 48 million and 50 million bags in the coming April-to-September harvest, up from 39.5 million a year earlier, Stephanes said today in an interview in Brasilia. Output may top a record set in 2002, when Brazil produced 48.5 million 60-kilogram (132-pound) bags.
Above-average rainfall in Brazil’s southern region, where almost 80 percent of the country’s coffee is grown, will help increase production during the better half of the crop cycle, Stephanes said.
“Coffee output will benefit from rains,” Stephanes said. “Trees are loaded with beans, and we have the chance of reaching a new record.”
Brazil’s Conab crop-forecasting agency will release its first 2010 coffee output forecast tomorrow morning. Still, bean quality may suffer as rains make the trees flower unevenly and farmers take longer to harvest, Stephanes said.
Coffee futures for March delivery rose 0.4 percent to $1.4160 a pound on ICE Futures in New York.
Brazil’s National Agriculture Confederation, a lobbyist group for farmers, forecasts output of around 45 million bags as rain slows the harvest and damage beans, said Breno Mesquita, head of the group’s coffee department.
Stephanes also said Conab will increase its soybean and corn forecasts tomorrow on expectations that rains will boost yields. Conab on Dec. 8 said farmers will likely produce 64.6 million metric tons of soybeans and 50.2 million tons of corn.
To contact the reporter on this story: Katia Cortes in Brasilia atkcortes@bloomberg.net; Iuri Dantas in Brasilia at idantas@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: January 6, 2010 14:54 EST
Coffee Decreases Diabetes Risk
More good news for Coffee addicts. An Australian study shows coffee and tea consumption decreases the risk for developing Diabetes. They haven’t quite figured out why yet, but they believe coffee and tea help regulate blood sugar.
Coffee and tea drinkers less likely to have diabetes
December 16, 5:50 PM DC Coffee & Tea Examiner Brenna Coleman
Coffee (Ali Edwards/CC flickr)
The December issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine released a study on the inverse relationship between coffee and tea consumption and diabetes risk, according to Modern Medicine. It seems that people who drink coffee or tea regularly have a significantly lowered risk.
Details of the study on coffee, tea, and diabetes risk
At the University of Sydney in Australia researchers analyzed a total of 18 studies, and almost half a million people who regularly drink coffee, decaf coffee, or tea. The results showed a 7% reduced risk for diabetes for every cup of coffee, although researchers believe more trials are needed to make the claim that drinking coffee and tea actually protects against diabetes. Coffee and tea seem to have a positive impact on blood sugar regulation.
The inverse relationship between coffee and tea consumption and diabetes risk is promising, and the potential could be great. At this time the exact phytochemicals in coffee and tea that are responsible for the apparently beneficial result are unidentified. It could be as simple as the magnesium present in these beverages (as well as fruits, vegetables and many whole foods), which has an impact on diabetes risk, or perhaps it is the result of the synergy of several different phytochemicals. Regardless, researchers have brought coffee and tea lovers one more reason to enjoy their coffee and tea.
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Coffee War for Diedrich’s Kcups
Wow! Green Mountain is pretty serious about keeping its rollup of Keurig KCup licensees to itself. After Peet’s offered to buy Diedrich’s at $26 per share, Green Mountain made its own offer at $30 per share in cash. Now Peet’s is back in it with a $32 per share offer.
Of course, I was looking forward to a Peet’s Kcup, so I was pretty excited about the original deal. But, now it’s a muddled world of coffee intrigue and we’ll have to sit and wait to see who wants Diedrich more. Green Mountain has a lot more resources (and cash), so I’ve got to think if they want to win this war, they will. We shall see…
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Peet’s Raises Diedrich Offer After Green Mountain Bid
By Courtney Dentch
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc. raised its offer to buy Diedrich Coffee Inc. by 24 percent to about $265 million after Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. made a competing bid.
Peet’s increased its bid to $32 a share in cash and stock from a Nov. 2 offer of $26, according to a statement by the Emeryville, California-based company today. Green Mountain, which is based in Waterbury, Vermont, confirmed in a separate statement its offer for $30 a share in cash.
The acquisition would give Peet’s access to Diedrich’s license to make K-Cup brand coffee packets, single-servings used with Green Mountain’s Keurig brewing equipment. Green Mountain has been consolidating the K-Cup licenses. It bought Tully’s Coffee Corp. in March and Timothy’s Coffees of the World Inc. earlier this month.
“Green Mountain has been active in rolling up the current participants in the K-Cups,” said Matt DiFrisco, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co. in New York. He has a “market perform” rating on Peet’s and doesn’t rate Green Mountain. “There’s clearly an advantage in the faster-moving K-Cup business than in the machines themselves.”
Green Mountain makes about 6.4 cents per K-Cup in licensing fees and could double that by selling them directly, said Mitchell Pinheiro, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia. He expects Keurig brewers to climb to 7 million installed units next year, from 3.5 million this year.
Peet’s fell $4.94, or 13 percent, to $33.06 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was the biggest decline since February 2001.
Diedrich jumped $7.66, or 29 percent, to $33.65, the biggest gain since April 30. Green Mountain rose 43 cents to $65.44.
Evaluating New Offer
Diedrich, based in Irvine, California, said in a statement that it is evaluating Peet’s new offer. On Nov. 20, the company informed Peet’s that it had determined Green Mountain’s offer to be the superior proposal.
Peet’s has until 5 p.m. California time Nov. 27 to convince Diedrich its offer is more attractive than Green Mountain’s. Diedrich must pay a breakup fee to Peet’s of $8.52 million if it walks away from the offer, according to the merger agreement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Nov. 2.
“We would not rule out the possibility of a higher bid from Green Mountain,”David Tarantino, an analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co. in Milwaukee, wrote in a note today. He rates Peet’s stock “outperform.”
Peet’s plans to fund part of the offer with cash on hand and $140 million in debt financing from Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Wells Fargo Securities LLC.
“They have the financial flexibility” to back the increased bid, DiFrisco said. “They haven’t voiced how much debt they want to take on to finance this.”
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