Caffeine Chic

Hopefully, after a sleepless night with your hunny (whether you’ve known each other for years or just met at the debauchery that was last night), the three words uttered under your breath are far less romantic than anything experienced the night before. “I need coffee.”

Sure, we’ve all heard it. Coffee stains your teeth, has you running to the ladies room for reasons other than powdering your nose, gives you bad breath, meh, meh, meh. Guess what? Coffee has some deliciously healthy benefits to it too.

Coffee helps to improves alertness, attention and wakefulness making it easier to get to work/school/play after an overly-refreshing evening. Would I suggest consuming a cup of coffee before hitting the sheets? Not unless you’re planning on counting backwards from 500 three or more times.

Planning on hitting the gym? Coffee helps fight fatigue in physical activity and gives you some peppiness to conquer that treadmill. Again, I wouldn’t propose trying out for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics if you’ve been hopped up on coffee to get there. It is considered a performance enhancer in the eyes of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES).

Fluids are a crucial element to your diet and we all should be drinking 6-8 cups of liquid per day. Uh huh. This includes coffee. Moderate intakes of caffeinated liquids (like coffee, Rockstars, lattes) will have absolutely no effect on your hydration levels.

And the obvious benefit to coffee is being able to holler at your bestest pal, meet her/him at the closest coffee shop, and gab about the rendezvous from the night before.