Coffee – Is it the evil drink?
Over in Steve Pavlina’s blog, he has a post on “How to Give Up Coffee”. He mentioned some reasons why one should give up coffee:
I can’t ignore the energy boost and mental acceleration that comes from caffeine. But I do notice negative side effects when I drink coffee. Caffeine seems to make part of my brain overactive and another part underactive. I become really good at doing things, but very bad at prioritizing what needs to be done. If I drink a lot of coffee, I’ll often spend hours doing a bunch of low priority tasks, and I find that other unproductive habits are more likely to be done excessively. I become like a rat in a treadmill, doing more and more but not accomplishing what really matters. I find it very hard to focus on the big picture from a holistic whole-brain standpoint if I’ve consumed caffeine.
I have been drinking coffee since I started working, and have been drinking cola since I was young. Now my intake of drink other than water are two cans of cola throughout the day and one cup of coffee at the morning. I don’t have problems on getting into sleep so my tolerance to caffeine definitely very high. I don’t see much differences for me with or without coffee except it keeps me awake at the morning. I definitely know that caffeine is a drug because I am addicted to cola. ;)
For now I will try to replace coffee to tea and see if there are any other differences. What are others’ thoughts on this?
How to Give Up Coffee – [Steve Pavlina]
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Jacob says on May 30th, 2005 at 10:39 pm
I agree that caffeine is a drug (I see my wife prefer cola over mostly any other drink). Personally, I drink an occasional coffee in the work when I feel tired but my feeling is that coffee gives a short term energy boost now on the account of a later weariness. Usually some hours after drinking coffee I feel more tired than before and the head isn’t worknig as good.
Just my opinion.
Matt says on June 1st, 2005 at 3:39 am
I prefer amphetamines over coffee..
:) (just kidding …….)
Harry says on June 1st, 2005 at 5:01 am
Give up coffee? You might as well ask me to give up oxygen consumption. I buy green coffee beans, roast them myself, and drink the whole pot over the course of about 6 hours. It is one of the joys of my life, along with my kids, sleeping, eating, etc. Why give it up?
Harry says on June 1st, 2005 at 6:31 am
Give up coffee? You might as well ask me to give up oxygen consumption. I buy green coffee beans, roast them myself, and drink the whole pot over the course of about 6 hours. It is one of the joys of my life, along with my kids, sleeping, eating, etc. Why give it up?
Teri says on June 4th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
I switched from coffee to tea about a week ago. I have been having a persistent problem with high blood pressure . . . and then I had a car accident because I wasn’t paying attention.
Tea is enough caffeine to give me a gentle lift in the morning without the jitteriness of the coffee.
This transition is helped by the fact that the coffee at work is absolutely disgusting. ;-)
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