10, December 2014

Drinking coffee from a white mug may make you add more sugar to it

Washington, Dec 9: Do you drink coffee from a white mug? If yes, you should change your mug at the earliest. This is because, according to a recent survey, drinking coffee from a white cup tastes less sweet and more bitter, than drinking from a clear or blue mug.

The study explained that humans tend to associate color with flavor and white was associated with bitterness and the brown color of the coffee contrasted significantly with a white drinking mug. The study idea was inspired by barista who overheard customers claiming that coffee drunk from a white mug tasted bitterer than drinking from a clear glass container.

What did the researchers conclude?

Researchers added that drinking from a clear cup enhanced a drink’s sweetness and blue mugs apparently intensified both sweetness and bitterness, so the brew just tasted stronger overall. Researchers then conducted the study where participants drank coffee from white, clear and blue mugs and were then asked to analyze taste and found that brew tastes bitter if drunken in a white mug as compared to white and blue mugs. The study advised sellers to serve coffee in transparent or blue mugs as it could influence the consumer’s multisensory coffee drinking experience.  

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

10.12.2014

Cough while exercising? Increase your vitamin C intake

London, Dec 9: If you show symptoms of respiratory disorders such as cough or sore throat after a session of vigorous exercise, increasing your vitamin C intake could offer relief, says a study. A meta-analysis of three studies found that vitamin C significantly reduced post-exercise airway (the tubes that carry air into and out of the lungs) obstruction in participants who suffered from exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, the constriction of the airways in the lungs due to the tightening of surrounding smooth muscle.

‘It seems reasonable for physically active people to test whether vitamin C is beneficial on an individual basis, if they have documented exercise-induced bronchoconstriction or suffer from respiratory symptoms such as cough or sore throat after taking vigorous exercise,’ said Harri Hemila from the University of Helsinki in Finland.

The researchers found that an intake of vitamin C led to a reduction in post-exercise large-airway obstruction and small-airway obstruction. Hemila carried out an analysis of a study which had 12 participants. The participants had asthma, were on average 26 years, and suffered from exercise-induced bronchoconstriction. Five other studies examined subjects who were under short-term, heavy physical stress and a meta-analysis revealed that vitamin C halved the incidence of respiratory disorder symptoms. 

Another trial reported that vitamin C halved the duration of the respiratory disorder symptoms in male adolescent competitive swimmers. The study appeared in the journal Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology.  

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

10.12.2014

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