Just My Opinion on Caffeine- When I was a kid there were
cigarette ads everywhere, billboards, magazines, and commercials. People smoked
like a chimney anytime anywhere. I can remember sitting in restaurants with smoke blowing into your face. I am not sure why it took so long to figure out it was not
healthy and quite harmful. Finally the advertising stopped and a few years ago smoking became prohibited anywhere inside a building. I think caffeine is similar to smoking. This country
lives on soda, there are fountain pops everywhere you go, in every convenient
store, restaurant, and fast food place. When the kids were little I no other choice at restaurants than pop or water. Why is my only option to give my kid a sugary caffeinated drink because that is what
the majority does. I never let the kids
have pop until they were over 6, and not having it as a young child, they
really don’t even like it. So many people give their kids soda as soon as they are weaned from a bottle. Caffeine can not be good, it cannot be healthy. I
have decreased my pop intake about 2 years ago. I used to have a pop every day
after lunch for that pick up when I was feeling tired and whenever we went out
to eat. I weaned myself away from it which gave me lots of headaches at first.
Now I try to only have pop once a week or on special occasion. It is also costly. When you order a meal at a restaurant, it costs you $2.00 for a pop. With a family of 5, that is $10 extra we are paying at a meal. When we order water, we not only save that money, but the kids eat a lot more of their food because they are not full from high fructose corn syrup. Now that I am not as used to
caffeine, it makes my hands shake and I feel jittery. Most people drink
several coffees in a day and or numerous
pops. The latest thing to hit the market is energy drinks- Monster and Red
Bull. These drinks have as much caffeine as 7 pops. What!?? Why on earth would
anyone need that much caffeine. Kids drink this stuff because it is the newest
thing. People have died from consuming more than one at a time. Craziness. Teenager girls order Starbucks coffees because it is the cool thing. The espresso drinks are concentrated with 4x the caffeine as a coffee. The frappe, latte mochas run 6 to $7 a drink. I have hard of caffeine in gum. Seems such a waste of money to me. I am wondering how long is it going to take
before they realize it is not healthy? I think it is highly addictive and even
after not having pop for weeks at a time, I still crave it.
In
this day and age people work, are involved in church, clubs, school activities, meetings, clubs, and sports. Parents try to juggle all their kids activities and still work a
full time job. Work has changed too. People can’t just work 8 to 5 and walk away
from their job. Thanks to technology, people are calling, texting, and messaging
all day and all night. A job goes home with you and you never get a break.
This is where the need for caffeine comes in. Lack of sleep, just load up on the
energy drinks, more coffee, more caffeine to get them through the day. One day we will wake up and realize
what caffeine is doing to us.
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