Approximately 20 million families in fifty countries now work in the cultivation of coffee. Around 11 million hectares of the world 's farmland is dedicated to coffee cultivation. Arabica and Robusta are the two main types of coffee beans that are grown today. Around seventy percent of the world 's coffee production comes from the Arabica bean, used for specific custom coffees. So how exactly has coffee benefited the world? The coffee industry has been one of the biggest industries in the world since the start of the American Revolution, and up until today coffee has been the world 's second most valuable traded item, second only to oil. There are about 25 million farmers in over 50 countries that are involved in producing coffee drinks around the entire global population. Coffee is the United States largest food import and second most valuable item only second to oil once again. The United States buys its coffee from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, and Vietnam thus and as a result it creates millions of jobs in agriculture, imports, exports, imports, and business. Over the years the coffee industry has been growing at a rapid rate and the popularity of specialty and custom coffee has also been growing rapidly. As of today eighty percent of adults are coffee drinkers. This all together has created millions of jobs around the world and in the United States only through the business of coffee shops and …show more content…
What coffee does do is give you that boost of energy in the form of caffeine to help your body stay active and alert. What caffeine does is it blocks the effects of adenosine on your brain. Adenosine is the chemical in your brain that makes your body sleepy. It is the chemical that makes someone slow down. It tells your body to rest thus giving you this drowsy feeling. What caffeine does is prevent adenosine from entering your body and instead causes your nerve cells to work at a much faster rate thus giving you this alert and energized feeling.. Caffeine also speeds up the release of energy from fat cells and changes the way your brain receives neuron activation. What that translates to is the caffeine in your body is helping your brain receive information much faster and helps you stay focused. This is mostly to workers or even college students who are trying to stay up late to finish up some essays. Most interestingly enough coffee has brought some serious disease threats to a minimum as research has shown that coffee can actually reduce the risk of type II diabetes. Research conducted shows that people with type II diabetes have a higher level of human pilot amyloid polypeptide (also known as hiAPP) that has been building up around the pancreas. The pancreas produces insulin (Insulin is a hormone that distributes glucose