Posts Tagged ‘caffeine’

How to Defend Your Coffee Habit

I don’t think I’ve read a productivity blog yet that didn’t suggest kicking the coffee habit. I’ve kicked many bad habits in the last few years, something that seemed impossibly hard at first—such as dumping dairy—but coffee is one thing that I never succeeded with. That’s probably because I never really wanted to.

While it truly is best that you cut caffeine out of your diet or curtail your consumption… » Continue

February 19 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: caffeine, coffee, diet, health, Productivity | 55 comments»

10 Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep Without Pills

(photo from flickr)

A few months ago, I had a terrible time sleeping and getting up. After a party one night, I slept late and for the next 20 days, couldn’t get my sleeping pattern back on track. I fell asleep very late every night at around 3 AM and wasn’t able to get up till at least 11 AM each day. For someone like me who… » Continue

January 30 2008 | By Kavit | Tagged: alcohol, caffeine, exercise, habit, health, sleep, wellness | 36 comments»

What You Didn’t Know About the World’s Top Three Productivity-Enhancing Drugs

There are things people consume to stay awake longer, become more energetic or somehow increase productivity in other ways. They are usually things that people enjoy consuming – often in large volumes. Coffee, Coca-Cola (and other caffeinated soft drinks), and tea are the global big three productivity-enhancing drugs of choice. Most users think they are such great products that they can’t get through the day without. We suggest that… » Continue

January 8 2008 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: caffeine, drugs, energy, fitness, health, Productivity | 37 comments»

How to Take A Caffeine Nap

Brad Isaac at Achieve-IT has noted down a technique called Caffeine Nap from the Field and Stream magazine. The technique involves with drinking a caffeine drink (such as coffee) and take a 15 minutes nap immediately. The sleep researchers at the Loughborough University in Britain tested couple of different techniques to stay awake in driving and found out this is the best technique among other tricks such as blasting… » Continue

February 13 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: caffeine, sleeping | 1 comment»

Frequently Asked Questions about Caffeine

CoffeeFAQ has composed a set of frequently asked questions on Caffeine. Some of the answers solve myths of caffeine, and others try to take on difficult questions of caffeine. The most important and interesting is probably the caffeine and health related FAQs which talks about caffeine’s side-effect, and it relationship with metabolism etc:

… Caffeine increases the level of circulating fatty acids. This has been shown to increase the oxidation of… » Continue

January 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: caffeine, faq, health | 1 comment»

The Sleeping Reference

In my on-going quest on sleeping references, there is a great article called Good sleep, good learning, good life on sleeping and how does it relate to learning or creative achievements. First it talks about sleep deprivation in our modern society, then it follows on talking about functions of sleep, and insomnia. Finally it talks about some sleeping related intakes such as alcohol, caffeine and cigarettes. I like… » Continue

October 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: caffeine, insomnia, sleeping | 2 comments»