Health Effects Of Caffeine

Question: Health effects of too much caffeine? what are some health effects of having too much caffeine? Whether it be from coffee, sodas, teas, etc? are there any serious or diseases down the road that I may get?

Answer: In some people it can cause shaking, racing and irregular heart beat and skin problems (due to dehydration), like aging, eczema and other kinds of skin disorders! But only in some people... Usually its when a person is putting an extreme amount of caffeine into their bodies everyday! Other health problems or side effects are; sore joints, head aces & sleep disterbence! Apparently after having one cup of coffee, it takes 2 cups of water to make up for the loss of fluids in your body caused by dehydration! Just like most things, you should have it in moderation... 2-3 cups of either coffee or tea is fine, but only one or the other! Tea can be very benefisual because it is full of anti-oxidents!... Unless you have some sort of health problem and cant have caffeine, then I think you'd need to seek medical advice!

Question: Are there any long term health effect of caffeine addiction? And how can I kick the habit? I get severe migraines if I don't have a lot of caffeine every day.

Answer: here are some long term effects Caffeine takes about an hour to affect you (less on an empty stomach), and usually lasts 4-6 hours. Because caffeine is a stimulant, most people experience increased alertness, blood pressure, and breathing rate. These effects are mostly due to caffeine increasing your metabolic rate (though it has not been linked to weight loss). The drug is a diuretic, causing increased urination which can lead to dehydration. Caffeine makes many people feel jittery, “on edge,” and unable to sleep. Long-term use can lead to nervousness, insomnia, dehydration, stomach irritation, and fatigue.

Question: What are the health effects of too much pop, sugar, and caffeine? Like from drinking too much Mountain Dew, Coke, Pepsi... Is diet and caffeine free pop really healthier? Links please!!! Thanks!

Answer: http://www.cspinet.org/liquidcandy/ http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/0002146/36/ just google the topic alot comes up type inn something like sugary drinks and health Hope that helped

Question: What are the long term health effects of having 1-2 energy drinks per day? I drink about 1-2 cans a day. The cans have 160-180 mg of caffeine each usually. Could this have any effects? I heard it makes your adrenal gland not work properly is there any evidence for this?

Answer: To the best of my knowledge, there still aren't any completed long term studies of the contents of the energy drinks. I believe we still don't know how much taurine (a common ingredient) is even okay for us to have. It's probably not good to drink that many though. All that high fructose cornsyrup could mean diabetes later on for you. Regadless, I'd cut it back to 5 a week or something.

Question: I drink between 1 to 4 liters of white or green tea per day, are there any known adverse health effects? I know white and green tea have very little or no caffeine, and I do not use any sweetener, but I am not sure if there can be other problems associated with such high consumption. I usaully drink an equal or greater amount of water as well. I am not deliberatly drinking so much tea for any health reason I just love the taste, but I dont want to cause any health problems.

Answer: "Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water and may even have extra health benefits, say researchers." --- NOT LITERS!! check this website out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5281046.stm title: Tea 'healthier' drink than water

Question: is it possible to separate the caffeine from coffee? could there be any health effects of taking pure caffeine to get a caffeine rush?

Answer: yes there is a way.In my mom's chemistry book from college they say how to seperate the caffeine from tea leaves/. that there is some way to do that in a lab. It says you extract it using methylene cloride. You then distill away the chlorophylls by distillation ( at 40 degrees C) and then you purify the caffeine by recrystallization and sublimation. ok yeah, I myself don't know what the hell they are saying in the book but I am a 10th grade student and the book I am reading this from is called organic laboratory techniques (for when my mom went to college) but I hope this helps.

Question: does caffeine REALLY stunt your growth? i drink a LOT of caffienated stuff. like energy drinks, tea, coffee, etc. and i dont want to hear how unhealthy it is, i already know haha. but ive heard different things about the effects of caffeine. also would caffeine from guarana be any different? ive heard that quarana is really bad for you do ginseng, taurine, l-carntanine or whatever those are called have any bad health effects (like stunting your growth)? thank you

Answer: it does not stunt your growth

Question: Chemistry of Coffee: Might it be healthier to have a caffeine tablet and glasses of water instead of coffee? there ARE more things in coffee than just caffeine. What other substances are in coffee ? and what health effects in the long-run ? (I don't mean sugar and cream or milk) anyone please ?

Answer: It has some of the thinfs tobacco does. Tars and chemicals to keep you addicted. Try an apple. That does much better than coffee or caffeine.

Question: Is coffee/caffeine addiction the same as tobacco addiction at the heart? Nevermind the horrible health effects of tobacco, but isnt tobacco addiction just the same as coffee addiction. Dont people go back to the substances because of the same reason?

Answer: All addictions have similar components. Caffine is not as strong a substance as Nicotine so it tends to be much more difficult to do without ciggy's than coffee. But I agree with you ... The two addictions share more similarities than they have differences. And I think the psychological component is very much the same in all addictions. To the previous poster: Nicotine is naturally occuring in tobacco. The tobacco plant is from the genus Nicotiana. But: there is a chemical additive in cigarettes that enhances the addictive power of nicotine! Coffee, as far as we know, does not contain anything like that.

Question: Your thoughts on the effects of Caffeine on the body? I recently completed a lab, which showed that consuming a large amount of caffeine causes very rapid increases in heart rate and blood pressure. Such increases could potentially be significantly harmful to your health. What do you think of this basic fact: that Caffeine causes the heart rate and blood pressure to significantly increase? Will it change the way you choose to consume caffeine? Does this health news alarm you at all? For my lab, I used a middle age test subject, whose heart rate and blood pressure were normal before consuming caffeine, and significantly elevated after they had consumed Caffeine.\

Answer: No, it will not change the way I consume caffeine. Especially coffee. In my opinion, coffee is GOOD FOR EVERYTHING :). It doesn't matter if your heart rate and blood pressure increase. They increase with many things, even watching TV! So why on earth would I give up my coffee.

Question: What are the long term health effects of drinking Diet Coke ? Silly I know but here goes .. I started drinking Diet Coke many years ago, and these days I drink nothing but DC ... Ive started to experience some unusual health problems that my doctor cant quite diagnose ... horrendous aches pains cramps breathlessness and twitches and jitters ... as I write this I know Ive been a total idiot ... Im just worried Ive done some sort of permanent damage to myself. Ive been reading about problems associated with Aspartame (I live in the UK where Aspartame is still not banned and has been linked to some cancers) and caffeine addiction issues ... help ! thanks ...

Answer: I saw a recent study that showd ...........no link with aspartimine. Try googling. It was about two years ago.

Question: What are the health effect of drinking energy drinks? I drink about 3 rockstars a day, and 2 cups of coffee in the mornings and I still get tired... whats wrong with me? Am I going to have heart failure or something uncool because of this excess caffeine? Also I'm 16, female about 140 pounds.

Answer: I highly recommend that you STOP drinking that much caffeine. At most you should be having 300mg a day. Rockstars have about 150mg of caffeine each. An average cup of coffee has about 100mg of caffeine. Although there have been studys that show that a little caffeine is good for you, do not drink alot, because this is destroying your body.

Question: I have been drinking caffeine for years and am experiencing the effects of it. What can I use in its place? I have been drinking caffeine for 10+ years and am starting to have some health problems due to this fact. I am looking for a natural alternative to caffeine. What could give me the needed "kick in the pants" that I need but not the adverse side effects of caffeine?

Answer: Speed.

Question: How bad is marijuana for your health? I've read on plenty of sites different effects, but is there a definite and severe health risk from smoking it? Is there any different health effects of smoking a blunt compared to smoking through a bong or eating it in brownies, cookies (etc.)? Obviously it isn't good for the lungs and can cause short term memory loss, but is there any serious health risk that shortens life expectancy? Is marijuana any more dangerous than caffeine or alcohol (note that pot isn't addictive, and those two can be)? Thanks.

Answer: Smoking pot in a spliff has the same dangers as smoking a cigarette, plus the potential of long term mental harm. In cookies, it obviously does not have the risk of smoking, but the potential long term mental harm is the same (plus, calories - haha) Bongs I am not too sure of, but still the long term mental harm. Caffiene is not dangerous compared to weed, but weed is just as dangerous as alcohol in regards to the psychotic harm it can do. Although, alcohol abuse destroys your liver. Weed does not. Weed *on it's own* (without the added dangers of smoking it to your lungs etc) is as harmful as alcohol in the long term. In the short term, it has been proven that weed does not hold the same dangers as alcohol. For instance, someone who is drunk will drive more dangerously than someone who is high on pot. Weed in any form will shorten your life expectancy. On it's own (say you just straight out eat it) will shorten your life expectancy, but not as much as if you smoke it (or eat it with calorie filled cookies! Haha) which will shorten your life expectancy because of the drug, and because of the added dangers to your lungs of smoking etc. Realistically, because alcohol is legal, pot should be legal. The only reason it isn't is because the governments make more money off it being illegal. It is also impossible to enforce tax on weed nowadays, because so many people know how to grow it themselves - so they might aswel keep it illegal and carry on fining people who have it. Greedy gits. I personally think weed should stay illegal, and so should alcohol - but then again I'm boring, and hate people who pump that crap into their bodies. This is just my personal opinion, and realistically, my opinion is irrational =)

Question: What health problems could i ex[ect from a vegetarian diet, high in sugar and caffeine? i seem to have a strong sugar addiction and caffeine. i am a strict vegetarian, but i worry about the long term effects on my health! i eat a lot of soy and peanut butter,take a multivitamin.

Answer: It is bad for your nervous system. Anything to excess is bad. Try half calf coffee and stevia as a natural sweetner. Stevia does not raise your blood sugar. Try a natural vitamin as well synthetic vitamins dont have all the nutritional layers.

Question: Many people seem unable to quantify data from everyday life -should there be a name for this phenomenon? There is a term 'innumeracy', defined as "the inability to deal with simple mathematical concepts". Yet it doesn't seem to describe what I am observing. Example 1: - A recent debate on the health effects of soda pop - my opponent claimed an exaggerated diuretic effect from caffeine. - Regardless of your views on soda pop, my point is that my opponent only had two modes of quantification: 100% and 0%. - My rejoinder: to understand the effects of caffeine, you need to *quantify* their effects on the human body, something he apparently was incapable of contemplating. Example 2: - I posed a question "how much does x affect y in today's society". The responses were from two camps: 1) x has no effect on y, and 2) x completely controls y. No middle ground, i.e. no quantification. Briefly: some can't quantify observations. And perhaps they don't belive in predictability of the universe - the core of math. If this phenomenon is worth discussing, we need a pithy term - what should it be? d64d64 - I'd have to say that the Soviets did approximately 70% of the beating, while the Western Allies did the remaining 30% of it. Scientificboy_3434 - It is true that most people prefer to spit out an answer without thinking, but I believe this is a related but separate phenomenon. In particular, I belive that your and my ability to use qutification in everyday life reflects an outlook on life we have acquired from math training, which the artsy folks (or GWB, for example) frequently lack. Mr Jared - thanks for the compliment. Yes, the quality of answers here is poor, but 1) Phrasing the question itself helps me think more about the issue, and 2) Viewing some of the more thoughtless answers here helps me phrase the question better when I speaking to people whom I care about, and 3) Occasionally I actually learn something here! BTW, the context of my original question was thinking about how much value math classes really adds to most people's lives. In daily life, few of us utilize, for example, trigonometry, but some of us learn a different way of thinking. That way of thinking involves using, among other skills, the quantification ability apparently lacking in many of us. Given that most of us have forgotten our school-learned math by our mid twenties, it would seem more practical to reduce math training, for most people, to provide the quantification skill I am discussing, along with a few other skills. And, of course, basic arithmetic for day-to-day life. Moblet - wow, that's a great answer. And by the way, I am extremely envious of you being able to work in OR. I hope your managers respect the results of your work!

Answer: When I started working in operations research I was given a paper that someone had written about the differences in world view between managers and scientists. One statement I'll never forget was "Scientists recognise every value of probability except 0 and 1. Managers recognise no values of probability except 0 and 1." Most people on the street think that mathematics is entirely black and white, because at school they were always "right" or "wrong". So when they invoke mathematics in an argument they can only switch between one pole and another. They don't grasp that mathematics is the only language we have for uncertainty, so mathematics is the last place they would look (and the last thing they would believe) when faced with uncertainty. When you make a statement like "predictability of the universe" a lot of people interpret that to mean that "x controls y controls z", not "z is influenced by a myriad of factors in different ways". There's also the reluctance to engage with complexity, reflected in trends in the media for the "one-liner". My suggestion is "polar disorder".