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Chocolate and coffee easter recipes

Easter recipes: get creative with coffee capsules

Fancy making some Easter treats with a difference? The team at Nespresso have come up with some creative recipes that combine luxurious Arpeggio and Decaffeinato Intenso Grand Crus – with notes of cocoa - with chocolate for grown-up Easter treats.

Do your bit for the Fairtrade campaign

Fairtrade campaign gets celebrity backing

Pack your conscience along with your weekly shop and look out for Fairtrade products. Through the ‘Take A Step for Fairtrade’ campaign, the public are being asked to think about what they can do every day, every week or every month during 2012.

Coffee intake compared with depression risk

Could coffee hold the key for depression sufferers?

Can a humble cup of coffee be the key to reducing depression risk? With low mood affecting more women than men, a new study followed healthy women for 10 years and compared caffeine habits of those who developed depression to those who did not.

Coffee doubled the chance of success

Coffee 'can boost hepatitus C treatment'

Drinking coffee can help improve the results of chronic liver disease treatments. That's the view of researchers in the United States, who studied patients undergoing treatment for hepatitis C, specifically receiving peginterferon plus ribavirin.

Caffeine can affect the womb, study says

Caffeine 'reduces muscle activity in the womb'

Pregnant women and those trying to conceive have long been advised to reduce tea and coffee intake. It seems caffeine reduces muscle activity in the Fallopian tubes that carry eggs from a woman's ovaries to her womb, according to a US report.

Coffee after fast food is unhealthy

Fast food + Coffee = health risk, says study

It may be common knowledge that eating a fatty fast food meal has few health benefits, but a new study has claimed that washing such a meal down with coffee could be even worse. The research found that such a concoction led a healthy person's blood sugar levels jumping to those similar of those suffering from diabetes.

Pu'erh tea can be used in diet plans

Chinese tea can be used in diet programmes

For the majority of people it's the first thing they reach for in the morning. But could special teas and coffee also extract help aid weight loss? Yes, say the producers of Slender Pu'erh tea, a new product that aims to transfer an ancient herbal fusion into modern day diet plans.

Drinking coffe can help lower the diabetes risk

Coffee can help protect against diabetes

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles claim to have found a link between caffeine consumption and a lower risk of type-2 diabetes, as it can help to regulate the body's sex hormones, testosterone and oestrogen.

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Broccoli helps kill cancer cells

Broccoli helps kill cancer cells

We have long been told about the health benefits of superfoods but now Sulforaphane, one of the primary phytochemicals in broccoli has been proved to selectively target and kill prostate cancer cells, leaving normal prostate cells healthy and unaffected.

Over half of Brits want to shed 'at least a stone'

weight loss

The study commissioned by diet aid manufacturer Slimsticks, also discovered that a worrying one in five people have followed an ‘eating is cheating’ starvation diet and one in ten have tried a liquid diet.