3CupsOfCoffee.com — I can’t help but think of book whenever I hear of see the name Amazon.com, but fact is that the online bookstore has grown into a full-blown warehouse.
Apparel, shoes, health and beauty products, televisions, cameras, all can be bought at one place: Amazon.com.
You can even shop for groceries there, although I’d be more inclined to use the service to order gourmet food — such as coffee.
Right now there’s a Manager’s Special on coffee, with up to 50% off.
The big advantage of shopping for coffee at Amazon.com — aside from the price — is that you find brands and goodies local grocery stores generally do not carry.
Check out all the coffee, and related products, on offer.
3CupsOfCoffee.com — For the life of me, I can’t understand why people would go to McDonald’s to drink coffee (or, for that matter, to eat just about anything they offer).
But it’s the world’s largest fast-food chain, so they must be doing something right. Right?
Anyway, McDonald’s has been offering internet access for the past five years — at a fee. And that’s about to change for the better:
In mid-January, it will lift the $2.95 fee it has charged for two hours of Internet access at 11,000 of its 14,000 U.S. locations. There will be no time limit after the fee is lifted, AP reports.
So let me get this straight: a fast-food store is willing to bribe its customers into coffee-shop-style lingering. That must be a couch-potatoes’ dream: breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald’s, washed down with some coffee in between meals.
No doubt some surfers will check out McD’s competition(?), Starbucks, which offers free internet access online to card-carrying customers (2 consecutive hours per day). Everyone else pays $3.99 for two hours of online bliss.
Drinking lots of coffee and tea every day — even decaf — might keep diabetes away, new research shows.
In a review of 18 studies, researchers found that drinking three to four cups of coffee per day was associated with a 25 percent lower risk of diabetes than drinking two cups or less per day, according to Dr. Rachel Huxley of the George Institute for International Health in Sydney, Australia, and her colleagues.
There were similar results for decaf coffee and tea.
- Source: Tea, Coffee May Protect Against Diabetes, ABC News, Dec. 15, 2009
The research was performed by researchers from Australia, France, the Netherlands, Scotland, and the US, and it was funded by grants from several research foundations. Their conclusions have been published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, which is owned by the American Medical Association.
A pooled summary estimated that those who drank more than three to four cups of decaf coffee per day had about a third lower risk of diabetes than those who didn’t drink any decaf.
Seven studies also looked at the association between tea and diabetes risk. Again, pooled summaries showed that patients who drank more than three to four cups of tea per day had about a 20 percent lower risk of diabetes than those who drank no tea.
The researches says the beneficial effects are due not just to the caffeine in the beverages, but rather a whole range of chemicals.
We like coffee. Strike that. We love coffee!
Why ’3 cups of coffee’?
Well, we got the name from all those news articles in which folks in white coats always seem to talk about the benefits of drinking no more than ’3 cups of coffee’ a day.
This site is about anything related to coffee.
Here’s how it works:
At the home page you will find lots of ‘feeds’ — headlines of, for the most part, coffee-related articles on other sites and blogs: coffee news, reviews of coffee- and espresso machines, travel reports of visits to far-away cafés, books about coffee… and so on.
Allow the page to fully load, then mouse over each headline. A small intro will pop up for each article. Simply click to read the full item.
This is a great way to keep up with your favorite coffee blogs and websites. Each time you return to 3CupsOfCoffee.com you’ll see what’s new at a glance.
