Author: Gene A. Spiller
Publisher: CRC-Pre
Keywords: caffeine
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 1998-01-28
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0849326478
ISBN-13: 9780849326479
Caffeine-found in tea, coffee, maté, cola beverages, cocoa, and chocolate products-is an integral part of the diet of many people. Caffeine answers questions for a broad range of readers interested in the effects beverages and foods containing this dietary methylxanthine have on human health, nutrition, and physiological functioning. The composition, processing, consumption, health effects, and epidemiological correlations of caffeine are examined in detail. It is often said that too much caffeine is "bad for you." How much is too much? Get the facts on consumption of caffeine-containing prod
Author: Marina Kushner
Publisher: SCR, Inc,2006
Keywords: caffeine, truth
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2006
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0974758213
ISBN-13: 9780974758213
Author: Kenneth P. Chamber
Publisher: Nova Biomedical Book
Keywords: research, health, caffeine
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1604564377
ISBN-13: 9781604564372
Caffeine is the most widely consumed drug in the world, most commonly from the beverages coffee, tea and soda. An estimated 80 percent of the world’s population consumes a caffeine-containing substance daily. A typical 8-ounce (240-ml) cup of instant coffee contains about 100 mg of caffeine - about twice as much as a cup of tea or a 12-ounce (360-ml) can/bottle of soda. A 30-gram chocolate bar might contain as much caffeine as half a cup of tea. More than 99 percent of orally ingested caffeine is absorbed - with peak plasma levels obtained in 15 to 45 minutes. Caffeine is soluble in both
Author: Lorrie Klosterman
Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY)
Keywords: drugs, caffeine, facts
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $42.79
ISBN-10: 0761422420
ISBN-13: 9780761422426
Author: Stephen Braun
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: caffeine, alcohol, lore, science, buzz
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1996-10-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195092899
ISBN-13: 9780195092899
Alcohol and caffeine are deeply woven into the fabric of life for most of the world’s population, as close and as comfortable as a cup of coffee or a can of beer. Yet for most people they remain as mysterious and unpredictable as the spirits they were once thought to be. Now, in Buzz, Stephen Braun takes us on a myth-shattering tour of these two popular substances, one that blends fascinating science with colorful lore, and that includes cameo appearances by Shakespeare and Balzac, Buddhist monks and Arabian goat herders, even Mikhail Gorbachev and David Letterman (who once quipped, "If
Author: Taylor Clark
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: commerce, culture, caffeine, tale, double, starbucked
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-11-05
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 031601348X
ISBN-13: 9780316013482
STARBUCKED will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success. Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the coffeehouse movement changed our everyday lives, from our evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways we shop, socialize, and self-medicate. In STARBUCKED, Taylor Clark provides an objective, meticulously reported look at the volatile issues like gentrification and fair trade that distress a
Author: Taylor Clark
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: commerce, culture, caffeine, tale, double, starbucked
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-11-10
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316014036
ISBN-13: 9780316014038
Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the coffeehouse movement changed our everyday lives, from our evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways we shop, socialize, and self-medicate. In STARBUCKED, Taylor Clark provides an objective, meticulously reported look at the volatile issues like gentrification and fair trade that distress activists and coffee zealots alike. Through a cast of characters that includes coffee-wild hippies, business sharks, slackers, Hollywood trendsetters and
