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Using Coffee to Make it Through the Day
February 16, 2010: 0 comment(s)
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Everyday 150 million coffee users in this country, 50% of the adult population, drink 400 million cups of coffee which averages out to around three cups of coffee per person per day. Women will say they drink coffee because it relaxes them. Men will tell you “it helps them get the job done.” Most of them will also say they don’t always sleep well during the night and feel tired in the morning.
Dr. Joshua Septimus of the Methodist Hospital in Houston reports, “Many people won’t get enough sleep. . . and will drink numerous cups of coffee or high energy drinks so they will have enough energy. Most will use caffeine to push their bodies to the extreme when they could get just as much energy from a good night’s sleep.”
Americans get 75% of their caffeine from coffee. Each cup has around 100 mg of caffeine. Drink three cups a day and you are consuming 300 mg of caffeine everyday, enough of a chemical stimulant to activate your central nervous system so you feel energized, alert and productive. It will also speed up your heart rate, cause your hands to shake and give you a headache. When its effect wears off you will feel tired and experience fatigue.
Since 25% of our population is obese, that means over 35,000 million coffee drinkers are candidates for a condition called sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is common among obese individuals and 12,000 people in the U. S. have this problem who are not aware of it.
Sleep apnea occurs during sleep when the airway is obstructed because the tongue, jaw or soft tissue structures of the neck and mouth obstruct the airway and individuals stop breathing. They may snore, grunt or try to move air into their lungs but they are not oxygenating their body. As a result they wake up, move to a new position and dose back to sleep. This happens hundreds of times during the night. When they finally awake in the morning they feel tired, exhausted and head for their coffee to get them going and energize them for the day.
According to Dr. Joshua Septimus, “Obstructive sleep apnea is becoming an epidemic in this country, and many people are living with it instead of being evaluated and seeing how they can change their sleep patterns.” Sleep apnea has also been “associated with sudden cardiac death, strokes, and sleep deprivation so it’s best to check with a physician sooner than later.”
Lack of sleep can also lead to depression, high blood pressure, memory loss and an increased chance of car accidents. Dr. Septimus further warns, “Masking your bad sleep habits with high energy caffeine drinks or multiple cups of high priced coffee, while it might provide a short-term spark, will do nothing to cure the underlying problem, and make you feel better in the long run.”
“Most people don’t realize how much more productive they would feel if they could get eight solid hours of sleep a night,” Septimus said.
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