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A recess from work is rubbish without the seeds enclosed in the dark berrylike fruit..ahh cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye.

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The Healthy Coffee 

A look back in the past

Coffee is a global healthy tonic drink prepared from roasted seeds, generally called coffee beans, of the coffee plant. The term coffee was first coined in year 1598 through Italian caffè. This was created via Turkish kahve, which later on becomes an Arabic qahwa, a short term for qahhwat al-bun or in English "wine of the bean". In the past, healthy coffee becomes the suitable alternative to wines because; it has always been a customary to Islam to forbid the use and consumption of any alcoholic beverage.

According to history, coffee beans was first discovered and consumed on the highland of Ethopia by a man named Kaldi who was a herder of sheep. Some version of the stories said that Kaldi was a goatherd while other claims that he's simple a shepherd who happens to stumble upon a goat. This goat has an enormous energy and his liveliness is extraordinary. Kaldi noticed that this goat is in fact eating a weird looking black berries and he come up with a conclusion that these beans are responsible for such in increase level on the goat's energy. He to tried and gobble up the mysterious beans and was amazed by the result.

The healthy coffee had another side of the story which involves an Arabian guy named Omar who was exiled in the dessert along with his servants. Being without food, they had no choice but to risk their lives on boiling a black fruit from a certain plant found in the dessert. Drinking the liquid from boiling the coffee beans amazingly sustained their life. The nearby village called Mocha, heard of this news and considered the event as a message from heaven. In honor of the God, they have named the coffee plant with the same name of their village Mocha.

There are in fact a lot of legendary stories about the origin of healthy coffee. One thing similar is the appreciation of the ancient people in the health benefits of coffee beans. It's just surprising that this once unknown plant turns out to have health benefits and has become undeniably the beverage of all time. No wonder a healthy coffee is called a wonder liquid!

Coffee Break 

Coffee is considered one of the most prestigious beverages in the world and to attest to this, only a very few homes from north to south of the world are without a healthy coffee to grace their tables. This probably is due to the invigorating effect of healthy coffee and to some extent, the medical purpose attached to its use.

Most business deals are discussed over a "cup of coffee" even in plush offices. Labor groups fight for a "healthy coffee break" where important events of the day are common subjects of discussion. Media men get into their day's beat from "healthy coffee talks". A farmer primes himself in the early dawn with streaming, black strong healthy coffee before he meets the vagaries of nature. These are only a few of the things that makes coffee ticks wherever it is found.

Some of the uses of the caffeine in a healthy coffee which will perhaps explain its popularity are: it stimulates respiratory, gastric and renal activities, it assists in assimilation and digestion; it reduces the amount of blood circulation in the brain; it allays the sense of prolonged mental or physical fatigue and keeps off sleep for sometime; it relieves opium and tobacco poisoning, it serves as a palliative in spasmodic asthma, whooping cough, hysterical affections, and as remedy for diarrhea, typhoid fever in the early stages and vomiting after a surgical operations.

Since the discovery of healthy coffee drinking, it has gone far and wide sipped and enjoyed by men of different nationalities and religion. Coffee as a commodity has become a tool in international politics and economy.

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History of Coffee 

Coffee is a global healthy tonic drink prepared from roasted seeds, generally called coffee beans, of the coffee plant. The term coffee was first coined in year 1598 through Italian caffè. This was created via Turkish kahve, which later on becomes an Arabic qahwa, a short term for qahhwat al-bun or in English "wine of the bean". In the past, healthy coffee becomes the suitable alternative to wines because; it has always been a customary to Islam to forbid the use and consumption of any alcoholic beverage.

According to history, coffee beans was first discovered and consumed on the highland of Ethopia by a man named Kaldi who was a herder of sheep. Some version of the stories said that Kaldi was a goatherd while other claims that he's simple a shepherd who happens to stumble upon a goat. This goat has an enormous energy and his liveliness is extraordinary. Kaldi noticed that this goat is in fact eating a weird looking black berries and he come up with a conclusion that these beans are responsible for such in increase level on the goat's energy. He to tried and gobble up the mysterious beans and was amazed by the result.

The healthy coffee had another side of the story which involves an Arabian guy named Omar who was exiled in the dessert along with his servants. Being without food, they had no choice but to risk their lives on boiling a black fruit from a certain plant found in the dessert. Drinking the liquid from boiling the coffee beans amazingly sustained their life. The nearby village called Mocha, heard of this news and considered the event as a message from heaven. In honor of the God, they have named the coffee plant with the same name of their village Mocha.

There are in fact a lot of legendary stories about the origin of healthy coffee. One thing similar is the appreciation of the ancient people in the health benefits of coffee beans. It's just surprising that this once unknown plant turns out to have health benefits and has become undeniably the beverage of all time. No wonder a healthy coffee is called a wonder liquid!

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totalhealth

my day is never complete without a cup of coffee. Nice lens,interesting history of coffee.

Posted July 03, 2008

Death-Mark

Great lens... Now I know where coffee originated and the history of the term Mocha... Lol.

Posted July 02, 2008

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Coffee for me isn't a drug, it's my vitamin! Working on a graveyard shift, its keeps me awake in work and boost up my energy.

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