MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'coffee to stay awake'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:30:12 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469635&cid=t_245486_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2Fj0C5THIXlJo%2F In this study of 25 people, researchers found that people didn’t have those risky behaviors if they had caffeine every night (equaling 1 to 2 cups of coffee every 2 hours from midnight to dawn) while awake for three straight days. Half the group received a caffeine gum that provided them with the coffee equivalents and the other half received a placebo gum; neither group knew what they were chewing. Each day, in the mid-morning, the participants were given a computerized behavioral risk test: Participants who received the placebo were unchanged from baseline on the cost/benefit ratio of the BART at 51 hours of sleep deprivation, but showed a significant increase in risk-taking by 75 hours. The caffeine group remained unchanged from baseline at either 51 or 75 hours of wakefulness and... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469635 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:49:27 +0100 2469635