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UKIAH, Calif. – Mother Teresa is quoted with saying, “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving,” something that is embodied in the generosity and spirit of the Friedman family of Friedman’s Home Improvement.
“Bill Friedman is the most generous man I know,” said Zach Schat, of Schat’s Bakery & Cafe “and generosity must be hereditary because he seems to have passed it on to his son, Barry.”
Schat knows firsthand about the Friedman family’s generosity because it was Bill that approached him in 1995 about setting up a Schat’s Bakery & Café at the Ukiah location of Friedman’s Home Improvement.
“Bill walked into my downtown location, introduced himself and proceeded to share his plans about coming to Ukiah. He was sensitive to being seen as a big-box store in a new town and wanted to incorporate a local eatery into his Airport Park Boulevard location,” said Schat.
“I was not surprised when I learned that the Friedman Family had made a leadership gift to Ukiah Valley Medical Center’s capital campaign to build a new emergency department, intensive care unit and rooftop heliport,” said Schat, who continued, “I knew from the first time I met Bill, he was a good leader. Good leaders care about their family, employees and the communities they serve.”
Bill and his wife, Susan, along with their son and daughter-in-law, Barry and Heidi, have agreed to sponsor the donor wall in the new emergency department.
“We are most grateful to the Friedman Family to help us showcase the generosity of our community leaders that, along with support from Adventist Health, will make this much needed expansion possible,” said UVMC Chief Executive Officer Gwen Matthews.
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New research published in PLOS ONE has found no evidence for a link between moderate coffee consumption and dehydration.
The research, conducted by researchers at the University of Birmingham School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, UK, found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee does not result in dehydration and contributes to daily fluid requirements in regular coffee drinkers just as other fluids do.
Due to early research showing the acute effects of caffeine as a mild diuretic, there appears to be a common assumption that caffeinated beverages, such as coffee also have this effect.
However, the effect of coffee consumption on fluid balance cannot be directly compared with that of pure caffeine.
Interestingly, prior to publication of this new study only two studies had specifically investigated the effects of caffeine in the form of coffee on hydration status with mixed and inconclusive results.
This is the first study to directly assess the effects of a moderate consumption of coffee compared to equal volumes of water.
“Despite a lack of scientific evidence, it is a common belief that coffee consumption can lead to dehydration and should be avoided, or reduced, in order to maintain a healthy fluid balance,” said Sophie Killer, a doctoral researcher and lead author of the study. “Our research aimed to establish if regular coffee consumption, under normal living conditions, is detrimental to the drinker's hydration status.”
In a sample of regular coffee drinkers, Killer and colleagues measured the effects of moderate consumption of black coffee compared to the consumption of equal volumes of water on fluid balance and hydration status.
Fifty male participants were tested in two phases, where they were required to drink four mugs (200 milliliters) of either black coffee or water per day for three days.
In the second phase, those who had initially drunk coffee switched to water and vice versa. The two phases were separated by a ten day “wash out” period.
Females were excluded from the trial to control against possible fluctuations in fluid balance resulting from menstrual cycles.
To assess hydration status, the researchers used a variety of well-established hydration measures including body mass and total body water, as well as blood and urine analyses.
The researchers found no significant differences in total body water or any of the blood measures of hydration status between those who drank coffee and those who drank water.
Furthermore, no differences in 24-hour urine volume or urine concentration were observed between the two groups.
“We found that consumption of a moderate intake of coffee, four cups per day, in regular coffee drinking males, caused no significant differences across a wide range of hydration indicators compared to the consumption of equal amounts of water,” said Killer. “We conclude that advice provided in the public health domain, regarding coffee and dehydration, should be updated to reflect these findings.”
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