Italy: world leader of the "Italian Espresso"
The "black drink" is second
only to the oil as world volume of exchanges. Enjoying it in a wide
ways of assumptions (and now also in the new way: the salutary coffee)
the Italian coffee is appreciated more and more in the world. Only in
Italy are drunk 70 million cups a day. With a positive trend
Italy has reached the second place among the exporting Countries of
roasted coffee. The Espresso has made the coffee "Italian Style"
famous all over the world: this inimitable brewing method, an experienced
barista and the healthy mixture of herbs, oriental spices and quality coffees with which
the Fitness Caffè® is made, all together allow to get a more
wellness and aromatic drink than the normal cup of Espresso. Also in
case of other methods (as the moka pot, the french press, the gold or
paper filter, the turkish style, etc.) drinking daily a cup of Fitness
Coffee it will be always a more delicious and healthier new habit. Fitness Coffee Classic and Fitness Coffee Oriental Elixir can contribute daily to the wellness of everybody.
Brief history
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The Arabs used so much coffee that the Christian church denounced coffee as "the hellish black brew." But Pope Clement VIII found it so great tasting that he baptized it and made it a Christian beverage saying "coffee is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."
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The first coffee House was opened in England in 1652. A cup of coffee sold for a penny.
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Coffee is an Arabic name that derives
from Kaffa a region of Ethiopia in which the variety of original spontaneous
Coffea was open. The first crop of coffee of which news is had was installed
in the Yemen around 1200. Subsequently the use of the drink it quickly
spread from the east to the western countries, even if the Arabs for
long time maintained the monopoly of the cultivation allowing only the
export of the toasted coffee. The Indian pilgrim Baba Budan to the beginning
of 1600 were the first one that succeeded in escaping some precious
seeds: it brought them to Chickmagalur in southern India, where it planted
them really on the known hills still today with the name of Bababudangiri
Hills. Few years later in 1615 also the Dutch merchant Pieter van der
Broecke stole some cried by the I bring yemenita of Moka to transport
her to the botanical garden in Amsterdam. The Venetians had been beginning
the commerce for the first years of 1600, having ascertained the breadth
use of coffee that did him in the East. The first coffee shop of Europe
was opened in Venice in 1645 nearby to "Procure Vecchie".
In 1655 the Dutch planted the coffee in their colonies to Ceylon and
in the Indonesian archipelago. In the 1715 beginning the cultivation
in the French Antilles.
The coffee
The "black drink" more beloved
in the world is gotten by a plant of the family of the Rubiacees and
the kind Coffea that understands numerous kinds.
Only the kinds Arabica and Robusta have economic value and they are
cultivated in the principal coffee manufacturing Countries. COFFEA ARABICA:
qualitatively it is among the best coffees and it represents around
the 70% of the world production. The grains are small, of lengthened
form and flattened, of a beautiful green/blue color. Contrarily of the
Canephora Robusta, more resistant to the illnesses, the Arabic one is
a fragile plant that grows only in altitude. These characteristics are
at the base of its qualitative superiority: greater it is the altitude,
they mature anymore more slowly the fruits and so much the drink it
is rich of aromatic mixtures and of way of caffeine less elevated than
that of the Robusta one (1,1-1,7%). COFFEA CANEPHORA or ROBUSTA: the
Robusta one is a variety of the Coffea canephora but the definition
"Robusta" has entered in the common use to point out the varieties
of different coffee from the Arabic one. The grains are round from the
irregular central cut: the color is green/yellow, quantitatively allow
greater outputs and inferior quality slightly to the Arabic one, in
comparison to which it has a more rapid growth and a more elevated content
of caffeine (2 - 4,5%). The Robusta quality represents around a quarter
of the world production and the production is assembled especially in
the African continent.
From the mature fruits (in slang "cherries") green coffee
prepares him with a series of procedures aimed to separate the grains
from the fruit that it winds them and to dry them to allow the maintenance
and the following roaster. Two methods exist for the preparation of
the raw coffee: for by shoal, for by damp. The coffee gotten for by
shoal natural coffee is denominated, while that gotten for by damp washed
coffee is denominated. The stimulating effects of the caffeine-the principal
present alkaloid in the coffee-they have been being known for a long
time and it has been verified that the substance is not dangerous for
the health, unless is not assumed to very elevated doses. On the contrary,
the medical science has not put never in discussion the therapeutic
value of the caffeine, to which recent studies have recognized various
healthy benefits (for more information: scientific
news ).
The Robusta quality contains a greater percentage of caffeine in comparison
to the Arabic one (2-4,5% against 1,1-1,7%). In the Fitness Caffè®
we use a mixture with the maximum percentage of Arabic and a small percentage
of Strong (necessary to give more tone and body to the final beverage):
the content of caffeine therefore is ideal to exalt the salutary properties
and the superior taste of the drink that is really unique and innovative.
The best method to brew the Fitness Coffee is the italian style Espresso,
it is this in fact the method of extraction that produces coffee with
the lowest percentage of caffeine, because the little quantity of water
used for the preparation quickly passes through the mixture, freeing
a low quantity of the substance but also the whole harmonic and splendid
"bouquet" of the sixteen medicinal herbs and spices (for other methods see: preparation of Fitness Coffee
The best coffee "cru"
Here are listed some "cru" of the best coffee varieties.
• Jamaica Blue Mountain: considered worldwide the top cru, very sweet,
aromatic, pleasantly acid and from the sign of chocolate, is the most expensive
coffee.
• Coast Rica Tarrazu, Tres Rios: here a good body and a harmonic
aroma are melted, sour and rather strong coffee in their essence.
• Guatemala: regions of Antigua and Coban are origins of this magnificent
and complete "cru", spiced or yielded or to the taste of cocoa,
acids and often strong.
• Kenya AA: the "cru" more yielded and acid that exists,
to taste pure for an intense coffee, unique, alternative.
• Ethiopia Limu: one of the three extraordinary Moka washed of
Ethiopia, the coffee with the lowest percentage of caffeine to the world,
together sweet and rich in aroma.
• Ethiopia Sidamo: a good Moka washed of Ethiopia with small grains,
sweet, with floral aroma, slightly acid. very poor in caffeine.
• Sigri New Guinea: one of the best coffees worldwide, it is born
by the plants of Blue Mountain, it gives a complete cup, rich in body
and in aroma, sweet, from the balanced acidity and from the sign of
chocolate.
• Colombia Medellin Supreme: the best denomination from Colombia
from which a sweet and perfumed coffee can be brewed.
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Useful
news for our health |
From the UNICEF an
article on the artificial milk
Simon Barrington-Ward on the site of the Unicef
has published an article in English (http://www.unicef.org/pon97/nutr1.htm)
entitled: "To put the health of the children before the
business". In synthesis the OMS (world Organization of
the health) and the UNICEF recommend that the newborns are exclusively
fed with maternal milk during the first six months of life. The
reduction in the use of the artificial nursing and an improvement
of the practices of nursing to the breast could save 1 million
and a half of children every year. In many countries artificial
milk is incorrectly promoted as "superior" to the maternal
milk, and the advertising countries have a strong effect of belief
especially in Countries with low middle culture. The percentages
of nursing to the breast are in fact tall in Countries where the
advertising pressure is low. The people that live in the poor
Countries are easily convinced by the publicity that the artificial
nursing is the most modern thing to do. It says father Simon:
"having lived in Nigeria and traveled to a large extent of
Africa and of Asia, I can report that the manufacturers of artificial
milk systematically use images of white physicians surrounded
by black or Asian newborns to promote his/her own products as
the modern way, healthy and from first world to raise and to grow
well a baby. It is a message very powerful and persuasive, communicated
by images of modernization". Besides the danger comes also
from the fact that the instructions of use and the labels of the
artificial milks they are not clear at times for some groups of
populations. Besides: "the free champions, those distributed
by the sanitary operators, are especially a form of particularly
insidious promotion. A mother can easily pass from the nursing
to the breast to that artificial, but the contrary one is almost
impossible. In fact the newborn, after having been fed only also
with free champions of artificial milk for a few days, it gets
used to the teat and curtains to refuse the breast. But above
all while the newborn drinks artificial milk, the production of
milk lowers and at times disappears for the missed use".
The article signals besides that a code of behavior exists for
the sale of substitutes of the maternal milk, denominated International
Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, compiled by the
UNICEF and by the OMS, adopted by the World meeting of the Health
and undersigned by all the manufacturing multinationals of artificial
milk. This Code expressly foresees to protect the nursing to the
breast as "a way without rivals to furnish the ideal nourishment
for the growth and the healthy development of his/her/their children".
The Code is only a recommendation, even though authoritative,
but it is up to the states members to convert it in law and to
make to respect it. Among the purposes of this Code there is that
to guarantee that the substitutes of the maternal milk are not
commercialized or distributed in way by to interfere with the
protection, the promotion and the assistance to the nursing to
the breast. There is not in short doubt, that artificial milk
is worse of that natural and that come indeed incorrectly publicized
in so many Countries pointing out more deceitfully that it is
better than the maternal milk. A relationship quoted in the text
UNICEF shows that well 32 multinational societies have systematically
violated the Code that all had undersigned. Some names? Gerber,
Johnson, Milupa, Nestlé, Heinz, Nutricia, Wyeth, Abbott.
To conclude the problem is dramatic and immense: the solutions
to try to resolve are not only an information and an awareness
more diffused but above all a greater attention of States for
more severe laws and their check and respect. |
Television, danger of the
century?
Doctor Aric Sigman, partner of the British Society
of Psychology and member of the institute of Biology, has studied
for a long time the interaction between the human body and the
psyche, conducting searches on the effects of the hypnosis on
the brain and on the behavioral automatisms, the effects hidden
of the moderate diets but extended in the time and he has also
written various publications on the matter.
On the scientific periodical Biologist, Sigman - reassuming about
ten different studies - explains the risks that race the people
because of the excess of times passed in front of the television
severely admonishing to reduce the times. Everything would be
tied up to a smaller production of melatonina, that is defined
"the hormone of the sleep."
Its lack would determine alteration of the biological rhythms;
in the young people it would induce deficiency immunitaria and
it would accelerate the beginning of the puberty, in the elderly
ones it would increase the possibility to develop the Alzheimer,
it would favor the to rise up some diabetes and it would induce
to the insomnia.
The searches don't clarify if similar effects are also verifiable
in relationship to the excess of times passed in front of the
PC, but there are to bet of yes, for which would be opportune
to appraise in their entirety the hours in the doubt it spent
for job or relaxation in front of the monitors of any kinds. |
The ancient meaning of some colours:
Black - Protection, also used to blend or bind elements together;
Red - Emotions, passion, charisma, lust and also creativity.
White - Purity, power of the moon, allows energy to flow freely.
Blue - Protection, peace, calmness and spirituality;
Green - Growth, fertility, success in things and ideas that grow.
Yellow - Health in body and mind, love of man and the sun, connection to the God.
Brown - Mother earth, also can mean friendship and strength.
Orange - Abundance in career, projects and matters needing an added push.
Violet - Things that are sacred. |
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