I hate caffeine. I don’t want to try it, never have and don’t plan on starting.
I say taking energy shots, Monster drinks and even frappuccinos are moreover based on compulsiveness rather than healing.
Give caffeine to someone already addicted and they will tell you it transforms them.
It transforms someone that wakes up hating everybody into someone who feels good about hating everybody. They’re just hoping caffeine kicks in before their bitter reality does.
Caffeine is the second most-consumed beverage behind water in America according to the Healthline website.
Growing up in an Indian-American household, I felt judged watching my parents stare at me between sips of chai at tea time.
For years, I felt alone.
To my parents, my excuses always got old. They never saw that beyond my perfectionist, healthy exterior, there was a kid that was frightened by the negative effects of caffeine.
Caffeine isn’t for early birds or night owls. It’s for exhausted pigeons that can’t escape the addictive effects.
People consuming caffeine can over time develop physical, emotional and mental states of upset, including heart disease, according to the Health Digest website.
The same Health Digest website also said caffeine is a stimulant that can cause symptoms such as a rise in body temperature, frequent urination, dehydration, dizziness and headaches, rapid heartbeat, restlessness and excitability, anxiety and irritability, trembling hands and sleeplessness, according to the Better Health website.
Coffee shouldn’t be a requirement to stay awake for the morning commute and survive for an hour before lunch.
Some of my friends tell me sleep is a substitute for coffee.
It sickens me when people crack jokes about replacing the suggested 8-15 cups of water a day with binging Monster Energy drinks, Red Bull, 5-hour Energy or even a coffee from Starbucks.
Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said long-term daily use of energy drinks can cause kidney, heart and liver damage. It can also cause anxiety and other mental health problems along with physical dependence, according to the Marquette Wire.
The people who made Monster Energy drink only became famous because of their flashy, neon-colored cans. It has 27g of sugar and 2500g of their ‘signature blend’ that has caffeine, taurine, ginseng and guarana, according to the Wilson District website.
I’m guessing they call it a ‘signature blend’ because you’re signing a one-way ticket to the emergency room.
5-hour Energy is another seemingly harmless form of caffeine that comes back to bite you in the ass.
Nausea, restlessness and heart disease that can lead to heart attack or stroke are the frontrunners for active consumption of this product, according to the Health Digest website.
Caffeine is mainly to blame as 5-hour Energy has a whopping dose of 215 mg of caffeine in a single shot, according to the Consumer Reports website. To contrast, a 12 ounce bottle of Coca-Cola only contains 35 mg of caffeine.
To be honest, I could save money by ditching this drink and getting nausea, restlessness and heart disease by binging my local McDonalds’ entire menu at once.
Some people say caffeine is for people who think drinking coffee is an alternative for having nervous breakdowns and fits, which happens anyway once you get started.
My friends tell me that before they have their morning dose of caffeine, they feel tired and irritable. They say after their cup of coffee, they feel tired, irritable and fast.
If I had headaches and I wasn’t sure if it was from too much coffee or too little, I would stop drinking it altogether.
Some people say laughter is the best medicine.
Amen. It’s definitely not caffeine.
Caffeine isn’t a vitamin, it’s a drug. We need life without caffeine. Let’s honor the spirit of patriotism in America the proper way – dump all our tea (and coffee) into the harbor.
