In Good Health: How Caffeine Affects Our Body
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
According to the National Coffee Association, 60 percent of Americans drink coffee every day. That's more than any other beverage, including tap water. And 85 percent of people in the U.S. have one caffeinated beverage per day, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Coffee and tea aren't the only way to get a caffeine fix anymore. Synthetic caffeine sources are increasingly available through energy drinks and other supplements.
For this installment of our In Good Health series, we discuss the good, the bad, and the risky when it comes to our caffeine consumption.
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| 0:14.0 | Learn more at concur.com. Okay, my alarm goes off in the morning. |
| 0:25.0 | Okay, my alarm goes off in the morning. |
| 0:28.0 | Sometimes I hit the snooze. |
| 0:32.0 | I try really hard not to. Finally I drag myself out of sleep, stumble down the stairs. |
| 0:38.0 | And reach for that sweet, sweet cold brew. |
| 0:44.0 | Dallup of oat milk. |
| 0:48.0 | Day can begin. |
| 0:57.0 | Sound familiar? Well, for many, a cup of coffee is what gets us through the day or two cups or three. Now there are |
| 1:05.5 | plenty of other ways to get caffeine, energy drinks, even gummies. We heard from |
| 1:10.0 | plenty of you about your relationship with caffeine. |
| 1:13.3 | My name is Shelly Duncan. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm from Kansas and I just wanted to say, |
| 1:16.6 | I love coffee and I call it my happy juice and I need it every morning. |
| 1:20.4 | My name is Jesse Delacru Sanchez. |
| 1:23.0 | Coffee is something that I need every day on a regular basis, |
| 1:27.0 | maybe twice a day, just to go through a day. |
| 1:30.0 | It makes me feel amazing. |
| 1:31.0 | It wake me up. |
| 1:32.0 | My name is Paul from Martha, Florida, via New York. What I do is I get some |
| 1:37.2 | Starbucks beans over there publics and I take them home and I roast them again in the oven and then I put in a little bowl and as I'm working I just chew them. |
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