Person interviewed: Mrs Connor

Question 1: What products do you consume that contain caffeine?

Coffee and Chocolate

Question 2: How often do you consume the products?

1 Coffee per day 3 chocolates per week

Question 3: Why do you consume them?

They help me think and give me a energy boost

Question 4: How do they make you feel?

hyperactive

Question 5: What do you know about caffeine and how it affects your body?

speeds up bone degeneration, addictive drug, increase heart rate, dehydrates body, and its a plant.

Question 6: Would you like to know more about how caffeine affects your body?

yes

The mechanisms employed by caffeine are close to the blood vessels in the brain therefore the brain cannot sleep, the caffeine causes the release of adrenaline into the body, which makes the body active and alert, and it also manipulates the dopanine production in the brain so the person experiences a tempory high.

Facts:

- Caffeine is mildly bitter

- Cup of coffee is 90 - 150 mg of caffeine

- instant coffee is 60 - 80 mg of caffeine

- tea is 30 - 70 mg of caffeine

- cola is 30 - 45 mg of caffeine

- caffeine increases heart rate, blood circulation, urine production, and stomachic secretions.

- caffeine reduces glucose metabolism

- caffeine works immidietly

- caffeine intensifies the level of brain activity - quicker response times and better short run memory

- well being experts say no more then 2 cups of coffee per day

- evidence suggests that high caffeine intake can improve body endurance performance

- caffeine increases the bodies intopin ( a pleasure enhancing neurotransmitter)

- caffeine affects memory keeping

- you can feel the affects of caffeine a few minutes after of ingesting it

- caffeine can last around 4 to 6 hours

- caffeine is best ingested before exercise - that way your performance is enhanced

Addiction: obsession with something

5 Step Plan to quit coffee:

1. try changing coffee into something that doesn't contain as much caffeine e.g tea

2. once you have found something with low caffeine, try eating/drinking that for a alternative for coffee

3. keep on finding things with low caffeine and work your way down to 0 caffeine things

4. maybe try gum

5. consult someone who doesn't drink coffee and ask how they did it

Hello Jason, thank you for interviewing me on the caffiene topic. The information you provided was outstanding as usual. I am going to take your advise and change my morning coffee into a morning cup of tea. I started drinking coffee regularly this year, it is a social thing at Lanyon. I would like to stop drinking it all together and the facts you provided about how it affects my body are motivating me to actually do something about it. You mentioned that it affects memory...can you find out in what way? Does it increase our loss of memory or does it enhance it? I am looking forward to your reply....Thanks again for your posting....I enjoyed reading it!