BBC News Magazine: Coffee addiction: Do people consume too much caffeine?

[Gerald]

A cup of coffee in the morning is never wrong.

US officials are investigating the safety of caffeine in snacks and energy drinks, worried about the "cumulative impact" of the stimulant - which is added to a growing number of products. Is our tea and coffee-fuelled society too dependent on the world's favourite drug?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22530625

Note: 23 May 2013 Last updated at 00:58 GMT

[Betonov]

Don't they have an economy to fix, not thinking about what people drink in their own time :hmmm:

[STEED]

Drinking coffee dose not turn you into a donut eating sex machine getting hold of big guns and here is the proof...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=hQvMWD-_Nfo&feature=endscreen


Alright...maybe a little. :har:

[Dowly]

Drinking coffee dose not turn you into a donut eating sex machine getting hold of big guns and here is the proof...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=hQvMWD-_Nfo&feature=endscreen


Alright...maybe a little. :har:

I LOVE that movie! :rock:

[BossMark]

I always drink coffee when I have got a hangover :yep: when I am on my days off :D

[STEED]

I LOVE that movie! :rock:

Me too Dowly, his best movie in my view. :up:

[STEED]

I always drink coffee when I have got a hangover :yep: when I am on my days off :D


American researcher's after 15 years of solid research has proved drinking coffee increases your chance as much as 55% voting for the conservative party. :huh: :know: :shifty: :haha:

[Ducimus]

Don't they have an economy to fix, not thinking about what people drink in their own time :hmmm:

Seriously.

There are two things I really like:
http://www.ducimus.net/sh415/gunsandcoffee.jpg
And the government is going after both of them now! WTF!!!! :O:

[Tchocky]

I almost certainly do.

[Skybird]

I think quite some nutritionists enjoy the idea of having power and control over people by making them do what they tell them to do, and they like it the more, the more political and sociologically ambitioned they are. Not one week without a new pig-hunt through the streets. Not one week without the newest, the latest, the coolest new diat and nutrition information being revealed. From salad to cholesterine, from caffeine to uncooked vegetables, from cerealia to alcohol - I think there is not much left which over the span of my life so far have not seen a total mutation in assessment through the full spectrum form one pole to the other, and then back again. Only some things have changed in assessment, and stayed like that: Refined white sugar comes to mind, and certain types of fats.

[Sailor Steve]

I think quite some nutritionists enjoy the idea of having power and control over people by making them do what they tell them to do, and they like it the more, the more political and sociologically ambitioned they are.
Not just nutritionists.

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Red October1984]

http://th02.deviantart.net/fs50/PRE/f/2009/295/9/e/Cornholio_by_mspisz.jpg

He only got this way from caffiene

http://cheapandsleazy.net/images/c_and_s_cornholio.jpg

ABDFGREG:D BDVD:FOE GE:BJNE S:FNE: NEWG :o

I LIKE CAFFIENE!

[desertstriker]

Caffeine?!?!? where? oh there. Caffeine!!! Caffeine Caffeine Caffeine Caffeine CAFFEINE!!!!!!!

gotta do the voice like the dog on the began strips commercial. either way if they get rid of caffeine it will be replaced by something that could be more harmful.

if you ask me it is safe enough in certain quantities but once you reach the don't drink more thn one of these every 4 hours then there is a problem.

[Jimbuna]

Never touch the stuff :nope:

[Skybird]

Not just nutritionists.

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
-Robert A. Heinlein
I did not mean to exclude any of those people you listed. ;) It'S just that I was only about nutritionists (this time).

[Sailor Steve]

I did not mean to exclude any of those people you listed. ;) It'S just that I was only about nutritionists (this time).
I understand. You just put me in mind of a quote I like and I needed a reason to share it. :sunny:

[August]

For awhile I was up to 3-4 Dunkin Donuts Great Ones (16oz) a day before my Doctor told me to knock it off and switch to decaf before it killed me.

[BossMark]

American researcher's after 15 years of solid research has proved drinking coffee increases your chance as much as 55% voting for the conservative party. :huh: :know: :shifty: :haha:
Sod that, that's my coffee drinking days done with then :haha:

[August]

Sod that, that's my coffee drinking days done with then :haha:

I don't think quitting coffee is going to change your vote in American elections one way or the other. :)

[STEED]

I don't think quitting coffee is going to change your vote in American elections one way or the other. :)

How about a cup of tea? :DL

[STEED]

Sod that, that's my coffee drinking days done with then :haha:

New British research has now proved drinking Hot Chocolate turns you into a sex maniac who has no time to vote Tory.

I'm off to my super market to buy up all there stock. :D:har:

[soopaman2]

How about a cup of tea? :DL

*gasps* British people like tea, they are still mad at us for messing up their empire, I would rather eat a muslim made jihad Fallaffel than drink tea *gasps*

On a serious note, when I quit booze, my coffee and smoking went up alot.

I was told in an anonymous program I will not mention the name of, that is ok.

Some stuff about replacing something with another, and caffeine (in my case) is far less destructive on my life than the Jack Daniels and Budweiser I used to live on.

I was a morning drunk, like one hour out of bed, for real, as messed up as I seem, I used to be so much more scummy. I still am a pile of crap, which is why I love all of you, you treat a piece of white trash like me as an equal.:haha:


I hope I never fall back into it, I would prefer coffee addiction over alcohol any day.:)

[August]

*gasps* British people like tea, they are still mad at us for messing up their empire, I would rather eat a muslim made jihad Fallaffel than drink tea *gasps*

Not me, I love tea, especially Earl Grey or Darjeeling. Must be because i'm a New Englander? Sadly though i'm restricted to decaf on that as well.

[soopaman2]

Not me, I love tea, especially Earl Grey or Darjeeling. Must be because i'm a New Englander? Sadly though i'm restricted to decaf on that as well.

*Sobs*


I was so invalidated...

Tea is kinda cool, and sexy

Earl grey is good, and I love New Englanders. As a new Yorker, I forgive Boston for its "vile" treatment of the New York Yankees many years ago.
;)

[August]

As a new Yorker, I forgive Boston for its "vile" treatment of the New York Yankees many years ago.
;)

Crocodile tears!

Didn't you just crap all over evil New Yorkers fouling up your beloved New Jersey in another thread? :DL:O:

[STEED]

Not me, I love tea, especially Earl Grey or Darjeeling. Must be because i'm a New Englander? Sadly though i'm restricted to decaf on that as well.

There is hope for America. :DL

Tea & cucumber sandwiches on the lawn 4pm.

[Armistead]

I'm a terrible coffee drinker, day and night.

[Red October1984]

I always liked Hot Chocolate better.

[Father Goose]

I always liked Hot Chocolate better.

:agree:
But I still have to have my one cup of coffee in the morning. I think I have a problem! :o

[August]

There is hope for America. :DL

Tea & cucumber sandwiches on the lawn 4pm.

Add some bacon to those cucumber sandwiches and i'll be there!

[Gerald]

Coffee in the morning is good especially espresso, :yep:

[Platapus]

I think what the article was focusing on is food manufacturers putting caffeine in products that are not normally associated with caffeine.

But now even the US - home of Coca-Cola, Starbucks and the 5-Hour Energy shot - is questioning the wisdom of adding it to everyday foodstuffs like waffles, sunflower seeds, trail mix and jelly beans.

I think that food type products that have caffeine artificially added should have informational labels letting the customer know. That way the customer can make an informed decision.

[Gerald]

^ I think that food type products that have caffeine artificially added should have informational labels letting the customer know. That way the customer can make an informed decision. Exactly.

[Jimbuna]

Add some bacon to those cucumber sandwiches and i'll be there!

Or even a bit sausage and egg.

[BossMark]

Or even a bit sausage and egg.
And lets not forget the tomato dip.

[August]

Or even a bit sausage and egg.

http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.11027887.8030/sticker,375x360.png

[Jimbuna]

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/breakfast-roll-sausage-bacon-egg-15509144.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=sausage+bacon+and+egg+butty&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=KAHhryThDFTgGM&tbnid=l2F9svlEfZxvCM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dreamstime.com%2Fstock-images-breakfast-roll-sausage-bacon-egg-image15509144&ei=zRqhUb2pL8qi0QWxx4Ao&bvm=bv.47008514,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNHHJIueAr4M7idU8wQbdxdfJDDsQQ&ust=1369599021022915)

[Rilder]

Coffee? I literally can't drink coffee, the very smell of it makes me nauseous.

Some coffee based products, I like those sometimes, but coffee itself? Nope, disgusting and nauseating.

[STEED]

August you got my vote in 2015. :DL

[August]

August you got my vote in 2015. :DL

I'm running on a platform of bacon and biscuits for all. :yep:

[STEED]

I'm running on a platform of bacon and biscuits for all. :yep:


http://attachments.techguy.org/attachments/204940d1329604080/woohoo.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

...
Jim I'm gonna get a heart attack!

But I'll wolf that down anyway. :yep:

[Sailor Steve]

Coffee? I literally can't drink coffee, the very smell of it makes me nauseous.
That's a weird one for me. I can't stand the taste of coffee either, but I love the smell.

[Red October1984]

Hey Bob, I think he's having a heart attack!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CIOdQlSAxoI/SqHjoh-Ri8I/AAAAAAAAApc/WZRVf1aYuPw/s320/178783.jpg



DAAAAAA BEARS :)

[Platapus]

I'm running on a platform of bacon and biscuits for all. :yep:

Typical politician.... using pork to garner votes. :D

[McBeck]

COFFEE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lYo7gXuhg

http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/1202/caffeine-hoodwinked-twitchy-squirrel-caffeine-coffee-demotivational-posters-1329451326.jpg

[soopaman2]

I can drink coffee and be awake for my 50 mile commute work in the night hours, or I could drink beer.

I bet money I drive better under one substance than the other.

Paid for by :The citizens for a more awake America.

(And Folgers, Maxwell House, Chock full O nutz, and Juan Valdez)

[nikimcbee]

Seattle drinks so much coffee, that they pick it up in the Pudget Sound. It's not filtered out of the water by the waterm treatment plants.:o:hmmm:

[nikimcbee]

Here's my secret coffee mix. 50% Irish cream 50% hazelnut, add hazelnut creamer.:up:

[Gerald]

^Sounds good,:)

[McBeck]

Here's my secret coffee mix. 50% Irish cream 50% hazelnut, add hazelnut creamer.:up:

Mmmmmm....hazelnut

[Betonov]

There's a trucker coffee recipee here.

You make Turkish coffee, but instead of boiling the water you boil red bull

[Gerald]

Ouch! :o

[Jimbuna]

Most expensive coffee in the world comes from a cat:

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/04/most-expensive-coffee-world-comes-cat

[STEED]

Most expensive coffee in the world comes from a cat:

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/04/most-expensive-coffee-world-comes-cat

You can't beat coffee beans in dung!

http://www.odditycentral.com/foods/worlds-most-expensive-coffee-is-made-from-elephant-dung.html

Black Ivory coffee $50 per cup.

[Skybird]

My café. Juice of life.

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/5503/img1356wr.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/826/img1356wr.jpg/)

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5971/img1357kh.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/img1357kh.jpg/)

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9845/img1358kx.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/341/img1358kx.jpg/)

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3313/img1359mp.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/img1359mp.jpg/)

30% Indian Monsooned Malabar, 20% Brazilian Santos, 10% Ethopian Sidamo, 40% Indian Monsooned Robusta

[Herr-Berbunch]

Whilst on a certain unit in the RAF I used to have a lot of 'hanging around' time in the crewroom, which was filled with pool, crappy daytime TV and coffee. Lots of coffee.

I used to not get to sleep until 2 - 3 am, and often wondered why, then I realised the dozen or so large cups of coffee I was having at work every day, topped up with a couple or three in the mess, wasn't helping. Vodka Redbulls in the evenings probably didn't help either. :doh:

I went out and bought decaf and now it's pretty much all I'll drink coffee-wise. Occasionally I'll have a full-fat coffee, but I'll know about it straight away.

I buy a good quality decaf, tastes much better than most of the coffees on the supermarket shelves, including brand leaders. I don't usually tell my guests it's decaf and I've never had a complaint - I think most people either have the idea that it tastes crap in their head, or they've only ever tasted the cheap, crap stuff.

[Skybird]

I have stopped buying supermarket coffee second-last winter when I tried coffee from a private roaster here in my hometown, who already had won gold and silver medals for some of their melanges. I grind the beans fresh. Once you have tasted such coffee, you never want to go back to supermarket coffee, already grinded, again. The big industrial roasters roast too hot and too fast. That ruins it.

This way I spend twice as much on coffee. But the taste is the difference between night and day. To me, coffee is a luxury item. I save money in other areas. For example by not having a car.

I drink a pot of normal coffee in the morning, only rarely a second over the day. But over the day and in the evening I may have 1-3 Espressi. Different mixtures for both, of course. Espresso, correctly done, is stronger ion taste, but lighter in caffeine. That'S why one can drink it even in the evening. It's an imposter: it just pretends to be a tough brew (by taste), but it isn't: it's a lightweight, compared to normal coffee.

And espresso in German cafeterias and cafés costs 2,50 to 3,50 Euros. Hilarious, absolutely hilarious for that pathetic 25 ml of dark liquid.

[STEED]

I buy a good quality decaf, tastes much better than most of the coffees on the supermarket shelves, including brand leaders. I don't usually tell my guests it's decaf and I've never had a complaint - I think most people either have the idea that it tastes crap in their head, or they've only ever tasted the cheap, crap stuff.

I have laugh as I recall some time ago a women asked for triple decaf coffee! :rotfl2:

I too agree people can not tell if they are drinking caffeine or not, as for flavor well you can no question as cheap coffee has a twang about it.

[Skybird]

Thing to know: coffee is the most valuable and most-traded trading good worldwide - even before oil, jewelry, gold. :o

[Skybird]

I too agree people can not tell if they are drinking caffeine or not, as for flavor well you can no question as cheap coffee has a twang about it.
Oh, you can, no doubt on that, but many people have ruined their tongues with industrial food for too long, maybe. Extracting the caffeine inevitably comes at the cost of reducing the level of aromes and oils a tiny little bit - and you taste that. I for sure do, no matter which brand. Oil, like fat, is a taste carrier. And missing aromes: well, are missing aromes. So far no caffeine extraction method is known that avoids these losses.

[Jimbuna]

Put a few tots of Jamesons in the mug and you'll certainly be non the wiser :)

[STEED]

Put a few tots of Jamesons in the mug and you'll certainly be non the wiser :)

No way..

http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libraries/download/6791?offset=294.jpg

...Am I putting a Jamesons Mamba in my cup!

[Jimbuna]

No way..

http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libraries/download/6791?offset=294.jpg

...Am I putting a Jamesons Mamba in my cup!

Ya daft bugga :)

http://monabuehler.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/jameson.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=jamesons+irish+whiskey&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=T4jaD4f3HxcMZM&tbnid=O58SWTqCEB0CWM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthewanderlush.com%2Ftag%2Fwhiskey-cocktails%2F&ei=ZuGkUZ7lK-yT0QXVsIDACg&bvm=bv.47008514,d.ZG4&psig=AFQjCNFLt6cCD7x5UitQ-AjPQXHV53NOzQ&ust=1369846456313138)

[Herr-Berbunch]

You know STEED prefers his Mambas like his coffee - Black.

[Jimbuna]

Wouldn't surprise me if he was colour blind :)

[Skybird]

We share some taste there, it seems. These two I use to have in my household:

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4050/dalwhinnieu.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/dalwhinnieu.jpg/)

And - voilá! - this one:

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8793/jameson1780gr.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/jameson1780gr.jpg/)

But I do not throw them into coffee. It would be an insult to the drink, and an abuse of the coffee. I like Irish coffee - but only the ready-mixed concentrate by Jakobs. :D

[Skybird]

Was about time to derail this thread. It sticked already too long to the original topic, for my taste. :haha: Reputation of GT is at stake!

[soopaman2]

What is the difference between Jameson and pot.
The difference between Oxycodone, and Heroin


Laws.

Who killed more, drunks or pot heads.

I am sure coffee will be eventually twisted into some kind of nasty drug, because the Pharma companies found something they can capitalize off of.

Get it, big Pharma owns the usa, you other guys better react before they own you too, cut off your viagra supply or something.:har:

(edit: cialis is better, rock hard for hours, good for blood pressure too) Just saying, in case anyone asked :D

[STEED]

You know STEED prefers his Mambas like his coffee - Black.

You can't beat a Black sexy women you know. :03:

Wouldn't surprise me if he was colour blind :)


And I suppose you like your women green? Star Trek overload...:D

[Jimbuna]

You can't beat a Black sexy women you know. :03:




And I suppose you like your women green? Star Trek overload...:D

Cheeky bugga http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/8586/smacka1.gif

[Herr-Berbunch]

You can't beat a Black sexy women you know.

I apologise in advance.

Tell that to Chris Brown.

[STEED]

Here you go jim..


http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/13/131179/2820352-orion_slave_girl_marta.jpg

[Jimbuna]

We share some taste there, it seems. These two I use to have in my household:

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4050/dalwhinnieu.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/dalwhinnieu.jpg/)

And - voilá! - this one:

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8793/jameson1780gr.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/jameson1780gr.jpg/)

But I do not throw them into coffee. It would be an insult to the drink, and an abuse of the coffee. I like Irish coffee - but only the ready-mixed concentrate by Jakobs. :D

You Sir...have excellent taste :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

Here you go jim..


http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/13/131179/2820352-orion_slave_girl_marta.jpg

Perfect and thanks.

http://www.hellogreenman.com/images/green_man_3.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=green+man&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=Cob5bnZ6kwoXmM&tbnid=B1w3hmOdrnj8PM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hellogreenman.com%2Fgreen-man-photographs.html&ei=KBOlUc6CDKag0QWE2IG4CQ&bvm=bv.47008514,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNHQ7naSNoQ0D7ZhGqVj7CLVCp4xNQ&ust=1369859231341404)

[STEED]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IeYZJSlTsHM/S-q4cM_dcEI/AAAAAAAAFgw/E9FUSiDrA0E/s400/drink-coffee-posters.jpg


http://frtim.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/coffee-shaking.jpg

[Jimbuna]

http://blippitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/funny-coffee-poster.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=coffee+funny&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=fxMvrLNyXOK-LM&tbnid=UBsorBXkfvQSpM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blippitt.com%2Fnational-coffee-day-perk-up-time-to-celebrate%2F&ei=fBSlUeiANer60gX9q4F4&bvm=bv.47008514,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNGrAuu3FLLmp_PSLqAlLn_yn40lVw&ust=1369859546134254)

[STEED]

http://steelturman.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/24/a_coffee_cartoon.jpg

[STEED]

http://kogodgraduateinsider.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/fry_coffee_311.jpg

Coffee coffee coffee...less posting more coffee. :rotfl2:


Has anyone drunk 100 cups of coffee in one day?
And if so..
Did you do a Fry?

[Jimbuna]

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/63/6317/SZ47100Z/posters/i-need-coffee-to-start-day-and-booze-to-end-it-funny-poster.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=coffee+funny&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=1rKoZBkaeQEfzM&tbnid=IwkoyOw1L5XJYM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allposters.com%2F-sp%2FI-Need-Coffee-To-Start-Day-And-Booze-To-End-It-Funny-Poster-Posters_i8831231_.htm&ei=_BamUfOPCsPJ0AXgiICYDA&bvm=bv.47008514,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNGZQfTfZRAzRfG_0x23mG_jaoKPEA&ust=1369925731808657)