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Caffeine dangerous?
Re: Man Dies Of Caffeine Overdose
by LGW » Mon 11 Apr 2011, 06:39:54
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'G')iven they were delivering mail in arctic conditions that sort-of makes sense. But not for an office worker.
I dont know, I think this example (from the book about coffee I read 25 years ago) is from Denmark. On the other hand, they have Greenland, so you might be right.Greenland is not a Scandinavian country, and although technically owned and subsidised by Denmark it's generally never referred to as such. Scandinavia is only Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
As for the extreme coffee drinking it might well be true; I have heard of men from Norrland (northern Sweden) downing 25-30 cups a day while walking around their neighbourhood, getting invited to farms and whatever, drinking a couple of cups at every place as a social custom.
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Re: Man Dies Of Caffeine Overdose
by pedalling_faster » Mon 11 Apr 2011, 08:41:46
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'y')ou can die from an overdose of water or anything else. Still I dont think a normal young man would die from 70 cups of coffee.
How long would it take you to drink 70 cups of coffee? Even the most addicted coffee-freaks don't drink more then 10 cups a day, which is probably close to the 1/8 of a teaspoon that he should have used.
when i worked at SLAC, the linear accelerator at Stanford, i was very impressed by the physicists' ability to drink coffee. they were in the 20+ cup a day range. that's basically where i learned to drink coffee.
and i'm drinking coffee right now !
one of the things that intrigues me is the things people do before surfing big-waves in cold water. before i realized that my limit was about 20 feet (body surfing), i used to think i could body-surf Maverick's, the deep-water break in Half Moon Bay.
so i sought out counsel on the Mav's forums. boy, that is the wrong place to go for health advice ! i was expecting something like, "you need to be able to swim 50 yards butterfly, followed immediately by 50 yards underwater holding your breath". what i heard was, "oh just come on out. most of those guys smoke enough pot to kill an elephant !"
as i later learned, about 2/3 of the Mav's surfing culture was meth-fueled. some of them have since "come out" about it, notably Peter Mel & Daryl Virostko.
but, getting back to coffee & caffeine - that is a Sine Qua Non (without which there is none) in the big-wave surfing community. part of that is because you need a serious JOLT of something before swimming in 55 degree water with great-white sharks begins to be fun. also because many of the best days of big-wave surfing occur after a partial night's sleep, between early-onset adrenaline and having to drive for a few hours to get to a dawn kick-off.
of course, there's also a lot of caffeine use in the tech community in Silicon Valley.
who knows
Peak Coffee could be a bigger deal than Peak Oil.http://www.LASIK-Flap.com/ ~ Health Warning about LASIK Eye Surgery
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It's about worken all them angles. 
, I never thought that an overdose of caffeine could kill someone.
