Saturday, August 15, 2009

Drinking Coffee Helps with the Pain of Exercise

Diabetes Forecast (August 2009) reports a study of 24 college-age men who took a caffeine pill an hour before 30 minutes of intense exercise felt last pain during the exercise.

The men's perception of pain was lower on days when they took the caffeine, regardless of whether they were regular coffee drinkers or not. The amount of caffeine the participants took was 5 milligrams per kilogram, or 2.2 pounds of body weight, or the equivalent of 2.5 to 3 cups of coffee, the average amount that Americans drink daily.

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