Comments on: Tanya’s Tasty Tips: Is Caffeine Helpful or Harmful?

By: Cory

Cory — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:45:52 +0000

I’m a regular caffeine user. I drink several diet sodas each day. However, I’m at a point where I feel that it just can’t be good for me to consume as much as I do. What are the potential effects of overconsumption?

By: Bill Claman

Bill Claman — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:10:29 +0000

The downside of caffeine is that it can occasionally collect in the body making you worry unnecessarily. In my case it settled in my right breast and made the breast noticably larger than my left. After a couple years of wondering what it was, I finally went to the doctor. They sent me for a mammogram – and guys, that hurts! Anyway, it turned out it was just caffeine deposits and I was told not to worry about it. In this past year I have had almost no caffeine from pop, tea, etc but there has been no decrease in size. As a child I would have typically have tea during the summer but never any pop. As an adult I typically had a pop or two per day in my 20s and 30s. I’m not sure that it will have the same affect on other people or if the affect is different for men vs women.

By: Karla

Karla — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:32:37 +0000

I go back and forth with coffee/caffeine. I was heavy user in college, and then would stop during the summer. When I don’t drink caffeine in the morning, I get a MASSIVE headache in the afternoon. Nothing makes it go away, not aspirin or even caffeine, except to take 75 mg of diphenhydramine and take a nap. It takes about 3 days to get the effects of caffeine out of my system, or until I have more caffeine when I wake up. I have to have the caffeine before the headache kicks in, or else it’s too late. This all tells me that maybe it’s NOT so good for me? It’s almost impossible to avoid caffeine, though, so I’m back on it now, in a diet drink that I have every morning. I know I certainly sleep better at night when I’m off the caffeine, but I’m not as alert in the morning, either.

By: Kimberly C. Wade

Kimberly C. Wade — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:28:39 +0000

Recently a group of older women took part in a blind study, 1/2 were given a cup of coffee, and the other 1/2; none was given, then both groups tested. Coffee drinkers out performanced those w/o . I know my AM headaches always disappear- and now thanks to Tanya, I know why! Mocha coffees made using 2 tblspns of Hershey’s choclate drink mix (adds vitamins too!). Really good coffee tastes like choclate, though, like Dunkin Doughnuts’!