caffeine intake

turnipmonster · #1 07-20-2005, 11:56 AM

I'm down to 2 cups of coffee (morning) and 2 double espressos (evening) a day. is this unhealthy? if so, how unhealthy?

jakethebake · #2 07-20-2005, 12:03 PM

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I'm down to 2 cups of coffee (morning) and 2 double espressos (evening) a day. is this unhealthy? if so, how unhealthy?

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Yes. Extremely. You should immediately increase your intake.

Los Feliz Slim · #3 07-20-2005, 12:11 PM

If THAT'S unhealthy, I'm royally screwed.

CORed · #4 07-20-2005, 12:11 PM

Caffiene is a vitamin. You are taking approximately the RDA.

BruinEric · #5 07-20-2005, 12:13 PM

I'm sure you can find various medical advice about caffeine on the internet. My hunch is that you'd be better off taking those four servings at nighttime and cutting it in half.

I'm down to about 8 to 12 oz. brewed coffee in the morning, a diet cola at lunchtime, and usually 6 oz coffee blended w/chocolate milk or another diet cola in the late afternoon/early evening.

What used to happen in my prior job is they'd send us to these conferences at high-end hotels with really good coffee AND boring presentations = a perfect situation for a bender.

The big hit was our conference in Hawaii. A cup of Kona with breakfast, a cup of Kona at mid-morning break, a cup of Kona after lunch with dessert, a cup of Kona at afternoon break, a cup of Kona after dinner...yummy. I'd come home and have to spend the next couple months slowly reducing my intake.

Maulik · #6 07-20-2005, 12:38 PM

www.webmd.com is a good place to check

AEKDBet · #7 07-20-2005, 06:52 PM

Coffee has a multitude of health benifits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Benefits

Consuming > 800mg of caffeine / day is the threshold for very bad. The half life of caffeine is 4 hrs.... so coffee in late afternoon not good for sleep.

JMP300z · #8 07-20-2005, 07:00 PM

There was a good article in men's health about caffiene. Basically its pretty good for you with lots of benefits, but too much of anything is bad.

-JP

Tron · #9 07-20-2005, 08:42 PM

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Coffee has a multitude of health benifits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Benefits

Consuming > 800mg of caffeine / day is the threshold for very bad. The half life of caffeine is 4 hrs.... so coffee in late afternoon not good for sleep.

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This is irrelevant: I love Wikipedia. I always wind up clicking on some link in the middle of a sentence then going from page to page learning stuff that I never had the desire to. It's great.

miajag81 · #10 07-20-2005, 08:46 PM

2 double espressos every evening? How the hell do you ever sleep?