The day I found out I was pregnant, the lead story on CNN.com was ‘the dangers of caffeine for pregnant women.’ Ah, the Universe loves irony.
A few years ago, I sported a pin on my jacket that read, ‘Give me coffee and no one gets hurt!’ In the past year, I’d ‘cut back’ to about [...]
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On the heels of a Mount Sinai School of Medicine research which concludes that moderate coffee intake during pregnancy is safe and does not increase the risk of miscarriage, here’s another research saying otherwise. I have written before about confusing research, and here’s another proof.
So here’s the puzzle. The snag on earlier [...]
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For those coffee lovers among you, you may have wondered what this shade grown coffee that we have been hearing about is.
Shade grown coffee is grown in the shade of larger trees and bushes, usually in the rain forests of Central and South America, Indonesia and Africa. Because of this it grows more slowly and [...]
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There is new hope for pregnant women who need their daily cuppa joe. A study from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City reported on January 9th found that moderate coffee intake during pregnancy does not increase the risk of miscarriage.
In the study, 2,407 pregnant women consumed two cups or less of coffee [...]
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