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Caffeine Withdrawal Recognized As Real
Ben Sullivan writes "What many Slashdotters have long known looks set to become official: Caffeine withdrawal is for real. New research at Johns Hopkins should result in it being included in the next edition of the DSM, and recognized by the World Health Organization."
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I don't actually enjoy drinking coke (TM) that much - however some days I just feel the need for one you know...
Coffee usually requires a bit more effort (filter coffee at work, no funky coffee machine) and coke is so readily avilable.
There was a half witty documentary that showed what happened to four office females when deprived of coffee, coke, and chocolate (all caffeine and comfort, too many C's). They became ultra-hyper-bitches.
Which is only shy above thier usual office bitchyness (you know the types).
Anyway, yes it is real - we have all experienced it I am sure. even cats were rumoured to be subject to it after Whiskas (cat food) was rumoured to contain caffeine.
Why is caffeine in coke?
according to Coca Cola
Rumor: Caffeine in soft drinks is addictive
Our Response: Caffeine is not addictive. Caffeine has had a long history in the food supply, consumed as long ago as 2700 B.C. Scientific evaluation of caffeine's physiological effects in light of the criteria for drug dependence clearly shows that caffeine is not similar to the use of drugs of abuse or dependence. It is true that some symptoms of withdrawal can be experienced by some people if caffeine consumption is stopped abruptly.
So they do cover this, I wonder how new this is, or if they will update this, they used ot have a bit about WHY they put it in there, like for flavour.
My caffeine addicted ass.
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Tell it to my headache, I've been trying to give it up for the last week. Sigh....
Fumbling around to brew coffee just cuts into sleep time and drinking coffee on watch just makes it harder to get back to sleep. As one tactician commented about staying as rested as possible to be able to make good decisions and keep pushing, "sleep is a weapon".
Since I don't want to combine a massive headache with the inevitable seasickness that hits during the first 1-2 days I slowly cut back on the coffee so I'm off of it completely a week or two before the race.
Of course I start back up as soon as I get back from Hawaii.
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Caffeine is bitter.
Still, I hate to see companies get away with lying like this. There are plenty of non-psychoactive bitter flavors.
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I didn't really have headaches, I had aches in my bones. It's hard to describe, but for at least a week I had this deep ache in all my bones. I assume this is the 'muscle ache' that the study talked about, but to me, it was really deep inside, like it was in my... bones. Very weird. I work out occasionally, so I know what sore muscles feel like. This was different.
Read a few websites and found other people who had felt the same thing. After a few days it went away and I've been caffeine free since. Sometimes I still really, really want that morning cup. It's not that difficult to say no. Like I said, I guess I don't have an addictive personality. Yay me!
Um, try again. Maybe you need to do a little research. Caffeine indeed has quite a strong flavor, and I will bet you big $$$ to sit down and blind taste test Mountain Dew and No-Caffeine Mountain Dew.
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My information comes from direct experience, plus I've seen documented in numerous places that caffeine has a bitter taste.
Where did you get your information? When you call people names, it looks really bad when you don't know what you're talking about.
Thirty seconds with Google produces this from the NIH's National Library of Medicine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?hol
I prefer the taste of caffeinated Dew to non-, but that doesn't vitiate the idea that beverage manufacturers do it to addict their customers.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
I only take coffee the days I REALLY have to study EXCEPT the day before, a good rest the day before can do miracles. I haven't been put under the stress you guys have suffered from ... yet. Strangely enough I haven't developed a dependency to that magical beverage ;).
It also seems to have less of an effect on my body.
Maybe I should try heroin ;)
Perhaps its because the human body is tied essentially to them?
Spare me the vegan propoganda. No, really, just spare me. I have sharp pointy teeth for a reason. Our most closely related cousins, chimpanzees, regularly eat meat. They hunt small mammals, they steal eggs, they eat insects. Australopithicines are estimated to have needed around 35% animal protien in their diet.
And yes, it is possible to substitute in things like beans and legumes to get the same protiens, fats, lipids, and other nutrients that are found in meat. But please recognize that it is a substitution.
Only in western countries are we so priveleged that we can decide to exclude whole classes of food from our diets for reasons of weight managment or conscience. Being vegan makes no more biological sense than being atkin.
Oh, and to stave off the rebuke- yes, I know where my meat comes from. I've lived on a farm, I've seen the cows, I know how they're killed, processed and used. I can point to a living cow and show you where my steak comes from. Yes, hormones are put in cows. Your soybeans may just be GM. Even if they're "certified organic" (a term for which the FDA assigns no meaning whatsoever) the field directly beside them probably isn't.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
The cure for caffiene withdrawal is coffee.