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Now You Can Make Your Espresso in the Car

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:15:42 CDT

Busy caffeine-lovers, rejoice. You can now save time by brewing espresso while... cruising the highway. The Handpresso Auto, available only in France for the moment, plugs into a car's cigarette lighter and delivers up a steaming cup of espresso. All you have to do is add water and insert a...

Caffeine Takes Toll on Morning People's Sleep

Matt Cantor — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:08:05 CST

Morning person? You might want to go easy on the coffee. A new study suggests that caffeine intake during the day is more likely to disrupt a morning person's sleep than a night owl's. Researchers had 50 college students track their caffeine intake and sleep patterns for a week; the...

Kim, Khloe to Be Sued Over 'Unsafe' Diet Product?

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:12:13 CST

Kim and Khloe Kardashian have been hawking diet product QuickTrim for a while now , but it may not actually work—or be safe. A law firm representing one unhappy QuickTrim user is reaching out to others, and is reportedly prepping a class action lawsuit against the Kardashians, the New York...

FDA to Probe Inhalable Caffeine

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:21:00 CST

New York Sen. Charles Schumer isn't convinced inhalable caffeine is a good thing—at least not for kids, the AP reports. He has helped prod the FDA into investigating chapstick-sized caffeine inhalers called Aeroshots. The senator says his concern was prompted by incidents last year when students guzzled too many...

A Coffee (or 3) a Day Keeps Skin Cancer Away?

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:31:05 CDT

If you simply can’t get through your day without a cup (or three) of coffee, good news: That coffee may also be reducing your skin cancer risk. A new study finds that the more coffee subjects reported drinking, the lower their risk of contracting basal cell carcinoma, the most common...

For My Hyper 7-Year-Old: Coffee

Matt Cantor — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:29:05 CDT

What do you do when your kid can’t sit still—but you’re concerned about the side effects of Ritalin? One mom offers an unusual remedy that goes against standard medical advice: Give the youngster coffee, she writes at the Stir blog at Cafe Mom . Christie Haskell didn’t want her hyperactive...

How to Make the Most of Your Coffee

Matt Cantor — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:33:05 CDT

Caffeine can offer more than a quick high and a comedown—if you know how to use it right. Step one is to start clean, writes Kevin Purdy at Fast Company : Ease yourself completely off coffee over about 10 days. That may mean some headaches and groggy mornings at first....

Tea Keeps You Just as Hydrated as Water

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:36:43 CDT

Good news, tea lovers: You know all that water you're supposed to drink every single day? Well, you can substitute tea for at least some of it, a new clinical trial shows. Despite the fact that tea is caffeinated, the study shows that four to six mugs of it per...

22-Year-Old Sues: Four Loko Damaged My Heart

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:02:00 CDT

A 22-year-old New Jersey man is suing the company that produces Four Loko, arguing the caffeinated alcoholic drink permanently damaged his heart. Michael Mustica was rushed to a hospital after suffering heart arrhythmia when he drank more than two cans of Four Loko last year. Doctors told him he suffered...