Summary: The amount of caffeine a person needs to stay keep them awake depends on the person. For some people, a weak cup of tea is enough to boost them for their day. For others, a double espresso is needed just to get themselves ready. Most coffee drinkers experience the light symptoms like nervousness or insomnia, but a few will experience severe symptoms. It is possible to die from too much caffeine, only if you intake around 140 8 ounce cups of coffee in one day. However to make sure you are not at risk for major side effects, you may only take less than four 8 ounce cups of coffee per day. If you are not experiencing any side effects, then you are okay.
Connection: We recently talked about leading a healthy lifestyle, which includes maintaining a healthy diet. In order to stay healthy, you cannot have too much caffeine because caffeine blocks neurotransmitters like dopamine.
Discussion Question: How much caffeine do you drink in a day? From what do you get this caffeine? (tea, coffee, etc) Does the caffeine benefit you, or do you experience a few symptoms?
I don't drink caffeine very often. If I drink a coffee I usually drink decaf. If I'm drinking a soda there will be caffeine but I stay away from those too. I don't really notice anyhting different when I do drink caffeine. I am able to fall asleep easily and I on't get hyper.
ReplyDeleteI drink a cup of mocha/cappuccino a day because of my headaches. The caffeine gets rid of the migraine pains which are very severe in my case. Whenever I drink soda it makes my headaches worse. Soda makes me feel very heavy and inactive.
ReplyDeleteI use to drink coffee everyday last year, and it got me way more hyper than how I already am, and one day I decided to completely stop. Now I drink caffeine occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI drink a cup of coffee every morning to get my day going because I've been doing it for so long. Because of this, I feel side effects when I don't have a daily dose of caffeine. Without it, I get headaches and feel a lot more tired than usual.
ReplyDeleteI used to drink tea heartily where I would get several unbearable head aches during the day. And with that result, I concluded that caffeine gave me migraines which affected the way I functioned throughout the day. Since then, I have cut down my tea intake to one cup a day, 3 times a week.
ReplyDeleteI used Tea every morning to get my day started because, I've been sleepy a lot lately. Because of this sometimes I get stomach aches or it makes me have to use the bathroom really bad.
ReplyDeleteI drink tea most of the time and when i do it doesnt effect me later on in the day and ive never had coffe before so i dont know what it will do .
ReplyDeleteMy mom drinks about 4 cups of coffee a day. The worst part about this is that when she doesn't, she gets headaches. I'm trying to get her to drink tea instead of coffee, as it has about 50% of the caffeine as coffee.
ReplyDeleteI don't drink that much caffeine myself. I have a cup of every morning, but sometimes I don't finish it, and sometimes it's decaffeinated. But when I was younger, I didn't realize that caffeine actually had an effect on people's energy. I thought it was one of those health myths that everyone believes although there's no evidence for it.
I do not drink caffeine daily. When I do end up drinking it it usually comes from soda. It as little to no effect on my deportment or health as far as I can notice.
ReplyDeleteI don't drink caffeine...at all. I think of it as unnecessary and don't want to get my body hooked on it. Of course I have trouble waking up in the morning, but there are other ways to fix that than having a cup of coffee. It is important to me that my body is able to function independently, so I can proudly say that I don't drink caffeine.
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