Monday Motivation: That Cup of Coffee During Corporate Meetings Is Necessary!

For those of you who dread board meetings for reasons best known to
you, a cup of coffee might be all you need to help you make it through
and even participate actively.

Caffeine, which is present in coffee, has been found to boost
attention and long term memory.

Here are 5 Benefits of taking at least a cup of coffee at work everyday:

1) Low doses of caffeine enhance working memory performance.


2) Combined administration of glucose and caffeine contributes to an
increase in the efficiency of the attentional system. A review
published in 2012 suggests that caffeine improves performance on both
simple and complex attention tasks, concluding that caffeine has clear
beneficial effects on attention, and that these effects are even more
widespread than previously assumed.

3) It is well-known that low to moderate doses of caffeine (around two
to five cups of coffee per day) improve hedonic (pleasure-related)tone
and reduce anxiety. Whereas high doses can increase tense arousal,
including anxiety, nervousness, and jitteriness.

4) Caffeine increases both selective attention (focussing on the
relevant stimulus) and sustained attention (maintaining focused
attention over an extended period of time). A 75mg serving of
caffeine, the amount found in around one regular cup of coffee, has
been demonstrated to increase attention.  Higher caffeine intakes,
such as those found in more than one or two cups of coffee, do not
necessarily result in additional increases in alertness.

5) The effects of caffeine on alertness are most often clearest in
situations where an individual's alertness level is reduced, such as
when they are suffering from the common cold, the post-lunch dip or
working at night.

During night work, caffeine has also been shown to reduce cognitive
failures and accidents by about half in subjects consuming over 220mg
caffeine daily, i.e. the amount found in approximately two cups of
coffee.

Moreover, caffeine reduces cognitive failures in the non-working population.


Go ahead and give it a try and let us know your observations.

(Thanks to CoffeeandHealth.org)