Why the Times is against Coffee?

Times of India is cleverly campaigning against Coffee offlate. The reason it seems is not out of any concern on the Health of their readers or the Indian citizen, but may be to change habits in Chennai. Chennai is famous for it's coffee habit and "The Hindu" is also closely linked with this die hard Coffee habit. Having failed to dislodge either of the habits by work, now they are attempting to fight a war against the coffee and then....

First an article comes in TOI on 13th June which proclaims that Coffee might make you forgetful citing a "recent research as appeared in a BBC news portal". Then to supplement it an article in Chennai times yesterday refers the research and makes a solid pitch against the habit.

FIRST, THE SO CALLED RECENT SURVEY IS AS OLD AS 20 JULY 2004 AND SUBSEQUENT SURVEYS HAVE POOH POOHED THEIR RESULT.

WHILE THE BRITISH TV CLAIMED THAT "Caffeine made it harder for people to find a word that they already knew - the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon", A YEAR LATER Scientists at the Innsbruck Medical University discovered that 100 milligrams of caffeine, the equivalent of two cups of coffee, increased activity in the part of the brain that is responsible for short-term memory, and improved performance on a test that measures memory function.

During the experiments, researchers noted that the caffeine's effect on memory diminishes after about 45 minutes.

A RESEARCH IN 2007 REVEALED THAT Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day helped protect older women against some age-related memory decline, French researchers said, giving women more reason to love the world's most popular stimulant. Men did not enjoy the same benefit

ALSO READ THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES IN SUPPORT OF COFFEE IN THE SAME BBC NEWS PORTAL

1. Coffee 'boosts female sex drive' [2006]
2. Coffee may help relieve gym pain [2007]
3. Coffee 'boosts exercise stamina'[2003]
4. Men more responsive to caffeine[2008]
5. COFFEE PROTECTS FEMALE MEMORY

ALSO SEE POSITIVELY COFFEE FOR MORE AS FOLLOWS

Coffee helps to improve alertness, attention and wakefulness and by that means it facilitates relevant learning. When the study is tedious, boring and not motivating, coffee helps to give you the energy to study and to make the best of it. The caffeine in your cup of coffee helps you process the information from your study books and the lessons you follow.

Coffee also helps with Short Term Memory so a valuable adjunct during revision periods. Drinking coffee will also help to focus your attention to the main task, when there are many things around needing your attention

ALSO SEE Coffee and Health - Some Surprising Findings

Some exciting work is showing how coffee may help reduce the risk of a number of diseases and ailments, including type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's, colon cancer, cirrhosis, gall stones, depression and more. MORE....

Although coffee is one of the most heavily researched commodities and studies have spanned decades, there is still much controversy surrounding its ill effects, or lack thereof, on health. Study after study is performed -often with conflicting results--and it seems there is always a new study out to discount the last one. With that said, coffee is clearly not the healthiest liquid to drink--the best choice is pure water--but coffee and caffeine are far less dangerous than fruit juice or soda.

IN CHENNAI'S CONTEXT, WHILE CHENNAITIES ARE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BRILLIANT RACES IN THE PLANET, IT IS A FACT THAT THEY PERFORM BADLY IN QUIZ COMPETITIONS WHEN PROBABLY THEY FACE THE TIP IN THE TONGUE SYNDROME. THE BBC REASEARCH OF 2004, WHICH TOI QUOTES MENTIONS THE FOLLOWING

"In some conditions caffeine helps short-term memory and in others it makes it worse.

"It aids short-term memory when the information to be recalled is related to the current train of thought but hinders short-term memory when it is unrelated

"If the word is unrelated then caffeine is still strengthening retrieval in the same way, but because it is unrelated to the word you want to find it is actually having a negative effect,"

This may be true but there are other positives too.

Between Coffee and tea, tea lovers vote for Tea, as under

Coffee VS Tea: What's Better?
Research has shown that coffee has health benefits, despite its bad reputation. The benefits of tea, particularly green tea, have coffee drinkers wondering if they should switch teams. But is tea better?
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/247591/coffee_vs_tea_whats_better_.html

LAUGH AND SAY COFFEEEE	LAUGH AND SAY teeeeeeeee

HOW ABOUT A NICE COMBINATION?