Happy Monday to all and I’m sure everyone is so excited to be back at work and moving rather slow. For all you coffee drinkers out there who have already had a least a cup today, I saw a great article in the April 2013 issue of Discover Magazine by Rebecca Coffey that’s pretty good…enjoy!
20 Things You Didn’t Know About…Coffee
Joe. Java. Go juice. Whatever you call it, you’re probably drinking it. Now find out how coffee is connected to a Bach cantata, enemas, and elephant dung.
1. Forget 5-Hour Energy. The original pick-me-up may have come from the nomadic Galla tribe of Ethiopia, which made energy bars from ground coffee beans and animal fat sometime in the first millennium.
2. Around A.D. 1000, Arab traders brought coffee beans home from Africa and started boiling them into a drink they called qahwa. Translation: “that which prevents sleep.”
3. Fast-forward to the 1930s, when German physician Max Gerson began promoting daily coffee enemas to detoxify the liver, stimulate metabolism, and cure cancers.
4. More recently, Britain’s Prince Charles has raved about coffee enemas, and Amazon.com sells DIY kits.
To read the rest of the article and learn 16 more facts about coffee, CLICK HERE.
