Organic Coffee

Many farms use chemical fertilizers and pesticides to control their insects and increase their yield. This not only gets into the coffee beans, but also in the soil and the ground water. Fair Trade coffee is all about organic coffee growing by promoting things like composted coffee pulp and animal manure as an environmentally friendly alternative [...]

Green Tea Health Benefits

Green tea is known to have many health benefits. The Chinese have known this for a long time, and they have been using it to treat everything from headaches to depression. Some of the know health benefits of drinking green teas include: Lower cholesterol Weight loss Liver protection Helps fight heart disease Younger looking skin Read more SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Green Tea Health [...]

Negative Effects Of Caffeine - Breast Cancer

Prospective data relating caffeine consumption to breast cancer risk are limited. This is what the article “Caffeine Consumption and the Risk of Breast Cancer in a Large Prospective Cohort of Women” from the October 13 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, published by the American Medical Association, concludes according to the abstract. A 10-year study [...]

Brewing Tea

How to make a perfect cuppa tea? Well, that depends on what tea you are brewing. Brewing A Cup Of Black Tea or Rooibos Put one tea bag or rounded teaspoon of whole tea leaves per desired cup into the pot. If you use broken tea leaves, you can use a little less than that - unless you [...]