Monday 25 November 2013

Disadvantages Of Caffeine Intake On Health


Caffeine is a drug that is naturally produced in the leaves and seeds of several types of plants. Caffeine also produced artificially and used as an additive or flavor in some foods. Caffeine is known also known by its chemical name trimetilksantina metilksantina family. This material is white powder and a bit of a bitter taste. Other chemicals found in this group are found in tea leaves theophylline and theobromine found in the cocoa bean. There is some caffeine effects on health.


Caffeine can cause patients suffering from heart problems and neurological failure worsens, and most users do not know that this could happen to them.

Strong urine and body tired and lethargic. Caffeine also causes drowsiness eye thereby causing dizziness or headaches. If taken more than 750mg of caffeine (seven cups of coffee) a day will cause headaches, irritability, onset of fear and sleeplessness (insomnia). Taking high doses will cause cramps and may be followed by death.

Caffeine causes more calcium to be excreted through the urine. This effect can occur even after a few hours ago to eat or drink caffeinated beverages. This is because caffeine can interfere with calcium absorption in the intestines.

Caffeine tends to stimulate the brain and central nervous system then acts on the heart, blood vessels and kidneys. One of the most common symptoms encountered by users is dehydration (the production of too much water from the body, causing the body to lack of water). Even if you assume by drinking a lot of caffeinated body to retain water but caffeine will act instead on the body. Here caffeine acts to speed up digestion and stimulates the production of urine.


Caffeine acts as a mild diuretic, which causes us to urinate more frequently. Water-soluble vitamins such as vitamin B can decrease due to the loss of excess fluid from the body.Coffee and tea also contains tannins and caffeine can interfere with the absorption of important nutrients including iron, calcium, and most of the vitamin B complex.

Tannin is a type of polyphenol. Caffeine actually stimulate the production of gastric juices in the stomach. That is why there is suffering from gastritis after completion of drinking coffee.

Caffeine a person can become addicted. If individuals habit discontinue her caffeine intake, it will suffer withdrawal symptoms (withdrawal symptoms) such as headaches. This symptom is common among coffee lovers and this headache will disappear on their own within one to five days or it will be cured by drinking the coffee back or take drugs.

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