How To Reduce Impact of Caffeine
Caffeine is a drug that is naturally produced in the leaves and seeds of many plants. It’s also produced artificially and added to certain foods. Caffeine is defined as a drug because it stimulates the central nervous system, causing increased alertness.
The increasing number of caffeine in our lives still leaves the big question mark in our mind. In fact, caffeine is added almost in many consuming products like coffee, tea, cola beverages, chocolate and even some medicines. No wonder that caffeine seems common in our consuming food.
In result, we used to consume caffeine in our daily life. We like drink cola than mineral water is one proof that show caffeine gives big effect to us. According to Canada’s research, the maximum caffeine’s dosage per day is 400 – 450 mg. do not more than that.
For healthy adults, a small amount of caffeine may have positive effects, such as increased alertness or ability to concentrate. It helps you to stay up in the night just to complete your job. However, some people are more sensitive to caffeine. For them, a small amount could cause insomnia, headaches, irritability and nervousness.
Actually, the high risk of consuming caffeine depends on the person. How they can intake the maximum level of caffeine into their body. For children aged one to five, about 55% comes from cola drinks, about 30% from tea, and about 14% from chocolate. Then for adults get an estimated 60% of their caffeine from coffee and about 30% from tea. The remaining 10% comes from cola beverages, chocolate products and medicines.
People who get over daily amount of caffeine is in the high risk of these diseases,
* muscle tremors
* heart rate, cholesterol, blood pressure
* bone density, risk of fractures
* anxiety, mood changes, attentiveness
* potential risk of cancer
* influence male and female fertility
Overall, to minimize those risks, the expert has examines and considers the correlation between caffeine and the risks, then here are the conclusions:
For children below 12, they recommend a maximum daily caffeine intake of no more than 2.5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. Based on average body weights of children, here are the measures
45 mg for children aged 4 – 6
62.5 mg for children aged 7 – 9
85 mg for children aged 10 – 12
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