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Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline
Dthief writes "Bristol University researchers found that coffee drinkers develop a tolerance to both the anxiety-producing and the stimulating effects of caffeine, meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them. 'Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal,' wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol's department of experimental psychology."
Guess I'm gonna have to get started on meth now.
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And if you stop drinking coffee your body will adapt to waking up on its own with no need for it. I used to drink tons of soda (even more caffeine than coffee) and always had to have a can in the morning to wake up, I stopped drinking it (well aside from about 2 cans worth a week) and suddenly it was significantly easier to get up in the morning, to the point where, going to sleep at the same time, I was waking up an hour earlier and feeling much better.
Caffeine is not a good way to start your day off, no matter what folgers may say. It's a useful drug for maintaining alertness every once in a while but used daily it reduces your overall alertness, which is bad.
There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
Heroin addicts don't really get high like they used to, they just get well.
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Or that there really aren't any except withdrawal symptoms and slightly brownish teeth.
We're awash in chemicals all day. Why do we have to vilify certain ones? People have withdrawal symptoms when they break up with their girlfriends, too, but we don't go around trying to treat people for love addiction. I can assure you that the feelings are just a bunch of chemicals.
I don't believe it. Next you'll be telling me that smoking a cigarette doesn't actually calm me down, it just reverses the effects of nicotine withdraw!
We're awash in chemicals all day. Why do we have to vilify certain ones?
Because different chemicals have different effects, and some of those effects are harmful but may be non-obvious unless they are studied.
I mean, duh?
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I'm not sure what being American has to do with anything.
Americans work some of the longest hours around, and probably caffeine fueled hacking is probably more of an American tradition. Red Bull has been banned on and off, on health grounds, in various European countries, for example.
However, mods defintitely need to sit down, pour themselves another large glass of wine, and have another piece of cheese, before indulging in lazy cultural stereotyping. Cheers!
coffee tax: 1 billion
Work.
alcohol tax: 3,5 billion
Play.
tabacco tax: 14,5 billion
Addiction.
Sorry to disillusion you, but let me lay out the possibilities:
A. Your uncle had an incredibly, unbelievably unusual metabolism toward alcohol OR
B. He had been consistently lying about the amount of his alcohol consumption. This is extremely common behavior in alcoholics. The rest of his family supporting his story and generally being in denial is also very common.
You seem to be of the misunderstanding that there are only two possible way to have a life, the "American" way as you described it or "living in a bankrupt sun belt socialism". If this is your true belief, I'm truly sorry for your lack of world knowledge.
Take me for example, I'm as normal as you can get. I live in Sweden, have a good job within IT. I have 7 weeks of paid vacation and I work 9:30 to 17:00 mon-fri. Overtime is very rare (3 evenings in 2 years), and if it is required, I'm paid for it. I likely don't make as much as you do gross, but I live in a nice house, we have two newer cars and we usually take two vacations every year going outside Europe. But sure, I do live in en evil socialist state and we apparently have no freedom whatsoever, but I suppose I have been brainwashed to like it, just like you have with your life, eh?