Here is some fantastic news. We all know how good it is to give blood, but now there is incentive beyond helping your common man. Give a pint of blood and get a pound of Dunkin Donuts Coffee.
To celebrate National Blood Donor Month and help increase awareness about the need for blood, Dunkin’ Donuts and the American Red Cross are teaming up for the annual “Give a Pint, Get a Pound” campaign, which provides a coupon for a free pound of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee* to all presenting blood donors at Red Cross blood drives in Connecticut during the month of January. In addition, Connecticut Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants are hosting blood drives throughout the month of January to collect blood for patients in need.
By offering all presenting donors a coupon for a free pound of coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts and the Red Cross are thanking donors who support Connecticut’s blood supply by rolling up their sleeves to give the gift of life. Patients in Connecticut hospitals need blood every day and one donation of blood may help save three lives. Because winter is often a challenging time for blood collections due to severe weather and flu season, the “Give a Pint, Get a Pound” campaign helps boost blood collections when patients need it most. The “Give a Pint, Get a Pound” campaign achieved great success last year, helping the Red Cross exceed blood collection goals. Over the past two years, Dunkin’ Donuts has donated more than 100,000 pounds of coffee to the Red Cross.
Dunkin’ Donuts was to break ground Thursday on its first LEED certified restaurant — guidelines reflecting tough environmental standards.
The latest Dunkin’ restaurant, to be built out in St. Petersburg, Fla., will include energy-efficient construction and lighting, as well as water-efficient elements. It will serve as a prototype for the Canton, Mass.-based company, said Stephen J. Caldeira, chief global communications and public affairs officer for Dunkin’ Brands, which operates Dunkin’ Donuts.
Dunkin’ Donuts today announced that its new Smoothie beverages are now available in the Midwest market, as the company continues its westward rollout of the new product line. Made from yogurt and real fruit, Dunkin’ Donuts Smoothies are offered in Wildberry, Mango Passion Fruit and Strawberry Banana and are an excellent source of Vitamin C and Calcium.
In April, Dunkin’ Donuts introduced the Smoothie beverage line in the New England market. In early June, the beverages were made available in New York and Philadelphia.
Kathy Nowicki, field marketing manager for Dunkin’ Donuts, says sales results in other markets have shown strong appeal to a younger consumer and significant sales concentration in latter parts of the day, both important areas of growth for the company.
The smoothie industry is a new booming category in the quick quality arena. The quick-service restaurant industry currently serves 296 million servings of smoothies a year with sales representing $1.2 billion per year(1). Smoothies have become increasingly appealing to a growing group of busy and time-strapped consumers who consume their meals on the go, but are looking for healthier alternatives to fit their active lifestyle.
Each 16-oz serving of Wildberry, Mango Passion Fruit, and Strawberry Banana smoothies have 2.5 grams of fat and 360 calories. Depending on flavor, each 16-oz serving also packs in 25 percent of the Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) of Calcium and between 80-190 percent of RDI of Vitamin C.
Source: Dunkin’ Donuts Introduces Chicago Market to New Smoothie Beverage … – Business Wire (press release)
WOMEN with BRCA1 gene mutations, which confer a high risk of developing breast cancer, might decrease their risk by drinking a lot of coffee, according to a Canadian team of investigators. Dr. Steven A Narod, of the University of Toronto, Ontario, and colleagues examined the association between coffee consumption and the risk of breast cancer among 1690 high-risk women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations.
The study included women from 40 clinical centers in four countries. A self-administered questionnaire was used to assess the average lifetime coffee consumption. The likelihood of developing breast cancer among BRCA mutation carriers who drank 1 to 3 cups of coffee daily, 4 to 5 cups, or 6 or more cups was reduced by 10 per cent, 25 per cent and 69 per cent, respectively, compared to those who drank no coffee, according to the report in the International Journal of Cancer.
When the investigators classified the women by mutation status, they found significant protection from coffee for women with a BRCA1 mutation, but not for carriers of a BRCA2 mutation. The investigators note that coffee is an important source of phytoestrogens, which may have protective effects.
“The mechanism by which phytoestrogens may beneficially influence the risk of breast cancer has predominantly been attributed to their structural similarity to endogenous estrogens and their ability to bind to estrogen receptors,” Dr Narod said.
Source: Reuters