If the idea of giving up coffee sends you into a panic, but you need something to give you a boost of mid-morning (or afternoon) energy, don’t worry! We’ve got five tasty and creative alternatives to coffee. Each one is just as healthy and provides the same jolt of energy that coffee does, but without the jitters.

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The new Colombian champs are Gloria Jean’s Colombian Supremo Medium Roast and Newman’s Own Organics Colombian Especial Medium Roast. They offered fairly complex, well-balanced flavors that our experts found stronger and fruitier than the flavors of most others we tested. Watching caffeine? New England Coffee Decaffeinated Colombian was judged better than most caffeinated coffees, including Starbucks Colombia Medium. Eight O’Clock, the former favorite, had a mostly woody taste. (Think wet Popsicle sticks.) And Colombian coffees from America’s best-selling brands, Folgers and Maxwell House, scored only Fair.

The 23 coffees we tested included three Colombian K-Cup products, one of which was from celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck. Those products require a coffeemaker that can accommodate a K-Cup container, a type of single-serving coffee packaging. But K-Cups were more expensive per ounce than traditional packaged coffee and were only Good in our tests—and best enjoyed with milk and sugar to mask the off-notes.

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A Philadelphia woman is suing Dunkin’ Donuts, saying a worker mistakenly put sugar in her coffee, which ultimately caused her to go into diabetic shock.

Danielle Jordan’s lawsuit claims she asked for artificial sweetener to be added to her coffee during a June 2009 visit. Jordan claims she downed the drink and experienced dizziness, light-headedness and ended up making an emergency trip to the hospital.

Read more: Pa. woman sues Dunkin’ Donuts over sugar in coffee

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has stopped buying coffee? Wha–aat?

Before you panic, girlfriend, let us assure you that no one is here to take away your double-caff, extra hot, no foam, skinny cappuccino.

Recent media reports are saying that the friendly neighbourhood java joint has ceased buying coffee until prices drop. Back in January, Starbucks reported that the high prices were going to cut into the company’s profitability, but it wouldn’t pass the costs onto North American customers just yet.

Last week, John Culver, president of Starbucks Coffee International was reported as saying, “We do believe, however, that prices are going to fall again. For this year, we have locked our coffee costs but we watch the market closely.”

Read more: Starbucks & speculators: Is manipulation of the coffee market a good or bad thing?

Everyone gets a craving for a fast-food fix once in a while, but a new study shows you shouldn’t follow up that meal with a coffee because doing so can result in a spike in blood sugar similar to levels in pre-diabetics.

The study, conducted by doctorate student Marie-Soleil Beaudoin at the University of Guelph, found drinking caffeinated coffee six hours after eating fast food high in fat resulted in blood sugar levels increasing by 65 per cent. A healthy person’s blood sugar levels normally spike after eating a fast-food meal, but drinking two large cups of coffee hours later doubles the effect.

Read more: Fast food and coffee make for a dangerous health combination

Women who enjoy a daily dose of coffee may like this perk: It might lower their risk of stroke.

Women in a Swedish study who drank at least a cup of coffee everyday had a 22 to 25 percent lower risk of stroke, compared to those who drank less coffee or none at all.

“Coffee drinkers should rejoice,” said Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “Coffee is often made out to be potentially bad for your heart. There really hasn’t been any study that convincingly said coffee is bad.”

“If you are drinking coffee now, you may be doing some good and you are likely not doing harm,” she added.

Read more: Study: Coffee tied to lower stroke risk in women

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O), the world’s biggest coffee chain, on Sunday said it plans to announce a new product for the single-serve market “in the near future.”

Analysts long have expected Starbucks, which also sells Via instant coffee packets, to make a more aggressive move into the small, but fast-growing single-cup brewing segment.

Word of its new plan comes as Starbucks is getting ready for the March 1 termination of an agreement by which it provides coffee discs for Kraft Foods Inc’s (KFT.N) Tassimo one-cup home brewer.

Kraft’s Tassimo brewer won some loyal fans with its bells and whistles, but it was bested by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ (GMCR.O) generally lower-cost Keurig brewing system that now has a near-monopoly in the single-cup category with roughly 80 percent market share.

Read more: Starbucks plans single-serve announcement soon

We all do it. We spend little amounts regularly on things like lunch, Starbucks lattes, manicures, golf — maybe even for having a pizza delivered while you watch a weekly game on TV.

These seem like reasonable decisions about relatively small expenses. It’s hard to imagine how much they add up.

The harsh reality is that each dollar that’s spent today isn’t available for something else tomorrow. And these little purchases have a way of robbing us of the things we really want.

Read more: 6 Little Things That Cost a Lot

Tim Hortons is finally setting up shop in Iqaluit, one of the last places in Canada where the iconic coffee-and-donut shop chain doesn’t have a foothold in the local market.

Tim Hortons officials announced this week that it’s teaming up with the North West Company to open three kiosks in Nunavut’s capital city starting in early December, creating the chain’s northernmost franchise.

Read more: Tim Hortons coming to Iqaluit

Josephus Daniels (18 May 1862-15 January 1948) was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Among his reforms of the Navy were inaugurating the practice of making 100 Sailors from the Fleet eligible for entrance into the Naval Academy, the introduction of women into the service, and the abolishment of the officers’ wine mess. From that time on, the strongest drink aboard Navy ships could only be coffee and over the years, a cup of coffee became known as “a cup of Joe”.

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