Pros And Cons Of The Caffeine Craze

I was not crazy about the idea of using ice cubes to experience the physical, social, cognitive and emotional experience of a person who is addicted to drugs, so I stopped drinking and eating caffeinated products for a week instead. Caffeine is considered a stimulant drug that speeds up messages between the brain and the body. It can be found in various products such as Coffee, soda, energy drinks, teas, protein bars, ice-cream, yogurts, etc. As with many drugs there are health advantages and disadvantages with continual use. Researchers have found that Caffeine can help improve short-term memory, may also prevent type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, liver disease and liver cancer. Researchers have also found that caffeine can increase blood pressure which leads to increasing of daily stress, the increase of blood pressure could eventually lead to heart disease (“Pros and Cons of the Caffeine Craze”, n.d.). Caffeine may not be as dangerous compared to other drugs, but I thought that it would be a good idea to do this assignment with something that I eat and drink regularly and is not always healthy for a person to consume.
On Monday and Tuesday, I did not have much trouble when I stopped drinking coffee, but I was tempted to drink some. Most of the people at my job drink coffee regularly throughout the …show more content…
I almost gave in to drinking coffee just to stop the pain, but I used a pain reliever that I got from a co-worker to make it throughout the day. My anxiety and stress kicked in by the end of the day after my manager gave a meeting to everyone in the department I work in about meeting the deadlines for projects. The Caffeine Facts article explained that people can have symptoms that last more than sixty-three hours, so when I got home Friday evening I made sure to get plenty of rest over the weekend (“Caffeine Facts”,