An Egyptian medical scroll dated 1500 to 3000BC is the first known mention of a migraine, and throughout the centuries they have been one of the least understood but most common diseases.
Yet despite its longevity, the single biggest misunderstanding is that a migraine is just a severe headache. It is, in fact, a complex neurological disease that affects the central nervous system and is accompanied by a range of physical and emotional symptoms. 
In a study presented at the meeting of the American Chemical Society, food chemists found that dark roasting coffee produces a chemical compound that keeps stomach cells from producing the excess acid often caused by coffee drinking.Ever get a sour stomach after your morning coffee? Well, you might end up switching to a dark roast—because that coffee concoction may leave you with a happier tummy. That’s according to research presented at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco. [And to be published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, http://bit.ly/cberXM]
Robert Spuck, president and CEO of Margate-based WineStyles, sees a lot of similarity between coffee and wine: the nuance of taste, the intensity of interest its drinkers take, and the fact that people make both drinks a significant part of their lives.
Last week the formerly-Orlando based Kana Cuban Coffee Roasters moved into offices at the WineStyles headquarters in Margate and leased a nearby warehouse for their roasting operation as the company joined with Spuck to grow their brand in a region with a deep love for Cuban coffee.
Moving back to South Florida is something of a homecoming for the three men behind Kana as CEO Troy Lee, creative marketing manager Chris Neetz and roaster Adam Daggett all grew up in the Miami area and expect to find a larger local market for the product.
What tequila is to liquor, cafe cubano is to the world of coffee.It is not sipped or savored … it is shot! Cafe cubano is at-least double the strength of American coffee. It is a daily morning ritual for Cubans and Cuban-Americans. At any time of day or night at the countless little Cuban restaurants that dot Miami, people line up for “jolts” of café cubano served in thimble-sized paper cups. Cuban coffee is served at the end of a meal in tacitas (tiny cups) that are smaller than demitasse cups. The old-fashioned way to make café cubano is in a pot on the stove, though the truth is that Cubans in this country often make their coffee in Italian espresso makers. The tutorial below will use a Stovetop Espresso pot.
Raíces de Esperanza (Roots of Hope), Inc., is a non-profit, non- partisan group focused on empowering Cuban youth to become the authors of their own futures.Raíces de Esperanza means “Roots of Hope.” We are a network of more than 2,700 students and young professionals across the U.S. and abroad focused on empowering Cuban youth. We seek to inspire young people to care about Cuba, think outside the box and proactively support our young counterparts on the island through innovative means.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Cuba’s 47-year suspension from the Organization of American States will be lifted, thanks to an agreement reached Wednesday by foreign ministers assembled in Honduras, diplomats here announced.
”The cold war has ended today in San Pedro Sula,” Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said.
The United States– which had been pressuring the OAS for weeks to condition Cuba’s readmission to the hemispheric group on democratic principles and commitment to human rights — characterized the agreement as good news, saying it does in fact contain important clauses.
Ecuador’s foreign minister, Fander Falconí, told reporters there are no such conditions.
”This is a new proposal, it has no conditions — of any kind,” Falconí said. “That suspension was made in the Cold War, in the language of the Cold War. What we have done here is fix a historic error.”
Coffee drinkers, rejoice! The heavenly brew, once deemed harmful to health, is turning out to be, if not quite a health food, at least a low-risk drink, and in many ways a beneficial one. It could protect against diabetes, liver cancer, cirrhosis and Parkinson’s disease.
What happened? Lots of new research, and the recognition that older, negative studies often failed to tease apart the effects of coffee and those of smoking because so many coffee drinkers were also smokers.
“Coffee was seen as very unhealthy,” said Rob van Dam, a coffee researcher and epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Now we have a more balanced view. We’re not telling people to drink it for health. But it is a good beverage choice.”
As you digest the news on coffee, keep in mind that coffee and caffeine are not the same thing. In fact, “they are vastly different,” said coffee researcher Terry Graham, chairman of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. One can be good for you; the other, less so.
“Coffee is a complex beverage with hundreds, if not thousands, of bioactive ingredients,” he said. “A cup of coffee is 2% caffeine, 98% other stuff.”
BY LUISA YANEZScores of Pedro Pan veterans who came to the United States as children during the child exodus crowded into The Miami Herald pavilion on Sunday to find their names in a unique database unveiled by the newspaper over the weekend at Cuba Nostalgia.
“This is a wonderful way to preserve our history,” said Marilu Canton, veteran of Operation Pedro Pan, who found her name among the list of 14,048 names now kept in the Operation Pedro Pan Database.
Coined by a Miami Herald reporter, Operation Pedro Pan took care of unaccompanied children between 6 and 17 who arrived alone in the U.S. between 1960 and 1962. Parents were getting their children out of Cuba, fearing communist indoctrination spreading in private and public schools.
After first being placed in camps in Miami-Dade such as Matecumbe, Kendall, Florida City and Opa-locka, the children had to start new lives in exile in foster homes, orphanages and boarding schools across the country.
Though many were reunited with their parents quickly, that proved not to be true in some cases.
Hialeah still has a way to go, but it’s more eco-friendly today than ever beforeSouth Florida’s concrete jungle is headed for greener pastures.
As the fifth-largest city in the state with a bustling industrial center, Hialeah has long been dumped on for paving over every patch of grass — a truth that gave birth to the phrase la ciudad de agua, fango y factoria or the city of water, mud and factories.
”The City of Progress” hopes to shed that image by joining the nation’s trek toward a more eco-friendly future. It hosted Green Day Hialeah on Saturday, a citywide initiative to persuade its residents and businesses to promote conservation.
”Everything we’re doing today is going to change the way people view Hialeah,” said Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina. “This is about: What can we do today? I don’t want to set these 2025 predicaments. What can we do today to save water, conserve energy?”
(CNN) — The $410 billion budget President Obama signed Wednesday will make it easier for U.S. residents to travel to Cuba and to send money to family members on the island. It also could facilitate the sale of agricultural and pharmaceutical products to Cuba. The residents of Havana, Cuba, often rely on bicycle taxis for transportation.
Three provisions attached to the omnibus spending bill loosened restrictions enacted by then-President George W. Bush after he came to office in 2001.
Pop the champagne and pass the stogies. It’s time to celebrate the South End’s newest arrival. Send your heartfelt congratulations to Michelle Wojcik, proud owner of Galería Cubana, which opens today. Like its older sibling in Provincetown, the newbie showcases contemporary art sourced directly from La Isla Grande. (It holds one of only 30 licenses in the country that permits travel to acquire such artwork.)
With more than 46 million people, Nuevo Hispania is the 27th-largest nation on Earth and the fourth largest in the Western Hemisphere. Its residents wield $1 trillion of buying power in the marketplace. Even as the rest of the economy contracts in the global recession, Nuevo Hispania remains a thriving, even booming, market that’s expected to grow by 48 percent in the next four years.
