9 Caffeine Myths Explained
By Susan Kreimer, Special to Lifescript
Published July 27, 2010
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Are you jonesing for coffee first thing in the a.m.? Need a Coke in the afternoon? Caffeine has a reputation of being bad for you. Is it a bum rap? Read on for the facts behind 9 common caffeine myths.....
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http://www.lifescript.com/Body/Diet...727T000000

Wow, both articles you posted this morining (re: caffeine and food cravings) are exactly what I need at the moment ... thanks for posting!

The danger with caffeine with me is that it keeps me from sleeping well (something new as I get older), and then I find I need more and more to get me through the day as time goes on. Before I knew it, I was up to at least 10 cups/day (several being espresso -- a Venti Americano at Starbucks is 4 espresso shots!), plus Mt Dews, and even those 5-hour energy drinks! Now that I'm weaning off, I find that just a little has more of an impact. My body had built up a tolerance, and so needed more to feel the effect.

I'm glad for this article -- if I find it doesn't induce cravings later in the day, I just may stick with my morning mug of coffee (although maybe 1/2 decaf).

Thanks!

Laurie

Pre-Warning: Don't get mad....
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I have never drank nor liked coffee, and therefore never got addicted
(correction - make that never made it a habit - Myth # 1).
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Pre-Zone, I would have a soda now and then, but never any with caffeine. While we lived in the South (VA and NC) for a while, I did start drinking iced-tea, but not the sugar laden southern version, I drank our own home brewed sun tea, with only a little lemon added. (Which i found out only recently, not to add lemon to tea!).
I was drinking tea at dinner, until I figured out - just that little bit was keeping me from sleeping well at night. So I kept what little iced tea I was drinking then down to 1 glass at lunch time. Now all I mostly drink is water,and some herbal teas in winter, with no lemon. (Lemon, I found out recently, brings out any unwanted heavy metals from the tea leaves - that might have been in the soil the tea was grown in - even organic teas.)
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I did have coffee, once, when I was 16: I was working as a dishwasher and as a salad/appetizer prep at a fancy Italian restaurant in Trenton, NJ - where my mother worked as a waitress. You can not imagine New Years eve at a place like that!
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(I'll have to find the pix and post it for a while).
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I decided that night that since caffeine was a stimulant, to have some coffee to keep me going from 5 pm until 4 AM with non-stop fast paced work. I ended up having 17 cups that night, as I recall. (I must have had so much caffeine, that I was so stimulated, that I was able to keep count as the number of cups as well -- who knows why after all these years.)
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They were my first and last cup(s) of coffee I ever had. Maybe the associated experience kept me away from caffeine, I'll leave that for psychologists to ponder.

LOL "don't get mad" ... great story!

Funny story John. I don't drink coffee. I just plain never liked it.

Here it is, New Years Eve: circa (1972 to 1973) me at 16-1/2 (17 cup coffee night).

Ha -- great picture!!

Ha...so which one is you John, first on the left?

Nope, middle, very long hair, glasses (nerdy).

Thanks...that was actually my second choice for being you. Old photos are fun.