Is Caffeine a health hazard?

So Many People Drink It!

90%

10%

Caffeine Dinkers

people that dopeople that don’t

The Reason They Drink It?

For wakefulness, enhance mood and cognition, and produce stimulatory effects.

How Could Caffeine Be Bad?

It’s Addictive

Caffeine withdrawal includes headache, lethargy, irritability, and mental fuzzy-headedness. Some or all can occur among many daily caffeine consumers who abruptly stop their intake. – Sally Satel

Sleep Deprivation

In moderation, it can be used as a short-term stimulant to improve performance that is impaired because of unavoidable sleep deprivation- Simon Joseph

Various Other Problems Such As…

Caffeine increases blood pressure, plasma catecholamine levels, plasma renin activity,

serum free fatty acid levels, urine production, and gastric acid secretion

– Tony Chou

Question For You!

Is drinking coffee or energy drinks worth the side effect?

ConclusionCaffeine may have some benefits but is definitely over all bad for the user and if you are drinking coffee or energy drinks

daily you should consider stopping for

your health.

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Simon, J. (2001). Caffeine addiction and its effects. Nursing Times, 97(31), 42. Web. 19 Apr. 2012.

Yang, A., Palmer, A., & de Wit, H. (2010). Genetics of caffeine consumption and responses to caffeine. Psychopharmacology, 211(3), 245-257. Web. 17 Apr. 2012.