I've been caffeine free for quite a while now myself... it kept giving me headaches and making my ears ring (something I found out after a bit of research), so I decided to weed it out of my system.  Lo and behold, the headaches and ringing went away!   I can't even remember the last caffeine I had.  However, I do miss my Mountain Dew Code Red and Barq's Root Beer.  It's been worth it overall, though.

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Razara wrote:

Caffeine has a reverse effect on me. I used to drink a cup of tea before I went to school every morning, and it only made me more tired.

You need to let the tea simmer (is this the right word?) for a longer time. Otherwise you'll get relaxing effect, rather than refreshing. That's what's been told to me, at least and it seems to work.

Myself, I'm a Coke addict (less dangerous Coke:wink:). Bad for my teeth, but I hate sleeping too long.

When I have to wake up to be on classes at 8:00 I always take a moka on the little shop down here, it really wakes me up and tastes delicious they have this killer chocolate syrup, the problem is that sometimes they haven't oppened yet so I have to get one of Oxxo

Stormcrow wrote:

Myself, I'm a Coke addict (less dangerous Coke:wink:). Bad for my teeth, but I hate sleeping too long.
Did you know that even today, Coca-cola contains real coca?  I'm not kidding folks, coca-cola company runs a plant in New Jersey that imports the genuine coca leaves from South America and processes them into an extract.  Since 1904, they've been using "spent" leaves, whatever that means, but it probably means that there are still a few micrograms of cocaine in each can.  And it's totally legal!

I thought they stoped to use coke leave material since long time ago. Also coke unprocessed doesn't do that harm,  have heard peple on Peru consumes coke leaves on tea and other products to cope with the height

I drink tea and cold coffees from time to time, but that's really about it. I prefer fruit juices to most sodas, and the only sodas I drink are clear ones i.e., Ginger Soda (NOT Ginger Ale), Fresca, Diet Sprite (which is sad as there is practically nothing in regular Sprite), and sometimes 7up. Every once in a while I'll go crazy and get Cherry 7up, but that's about it.

I like Guava, Cranberry, Apple, Orange, Papaya and Mango juice. I used to be able to get a really good cactus juice, but sadly, no longer. I try to buy organic, corn syrup juices make me want to vomit.

When I was in HS, though, I went through about 2 liters of Mt. Dew every day. It's pretty sickening when I look back on it.

I don't like Pepsi, Coke or Dr. Pepper, which is odd because they all use caramels as a flavoring agent, and I LOVE caramel.

I like orange soda.

Once I saw a Juri cosplayer drinking Orange Soda, and I'm so upset that my camera didn't take the picture correctly. (That's happened twice with Juri cosplayers.) It is my new goal in life to find a Juri cosplayer, give her an Orange Soda, and take a picture of her drinking it.


Wasn't Coke originally green?

Doesn't most soda have a low PH level?

SleepDebtFairy wrote:

I heard if you put a nail in a cup of coca-cola and leave it there for four days, it will eventually dissolve in that time.

Coca-cola is too acidy for me. I don't drink soda much in general, but sometimes I'll have a root beer. But soda isn't that good for you, so I try not to drink it much. I usually drink milk or juice.

I don't drink any coffee at all, though. For some reason it tastes nasty to me, and I see too many people who are addicted to it and need it to be awake in the morning. But I am a huge chocolate and candy addict..

Everything has its limits. It's not that I hate coffee, but if I drank beyond a certain amount, I'd start throwing up. It'd also have something to do with the amount of sugar that was added into that coffee. i don't bother to keep exact counts because my life has too many factors for me to even care about how many spoons of sugar is in a cup of coffee from Starbucks...
The same goes for chocolate and such.
Mm... what I DON'T understand is, why is it that even when I already drank coffee or other caffeine drinks, I can still go to bed an hour later?

See, I love the smell of brewing coffee because it's what I associate with my mother -she cannot survive without the stuff. Coffee makes me feel happy, esp 'cause when I was little my mom wasn't always around so when she was, she'd have coffee and read the funny pages together.

I love the scent and taste of coffee, but I absolutly do not drink it hot. I only drink it iced with soymilk and a little sugar -same for tea (except I don't drink ICED TEA. Important distinction there). But part of that is just that I don't really care for many hot liquids -I'm honestly not a huge fan of soup, either.

I've never really understood how people can drink coffee. Maybe it's like grapefruit juice. The first time I drank some I thought, "This tastes pretty bad." But then the next time I was given a choice between my favorite drink (Strawberry Kiwi) and grapefruit juice, I chose the grapefruit juice. It's bitter, but it's somehow good, I guess.

Everyone in my family drinks tea. We even had a hot water dispenser installed so that we don't have to boil the tea. The water comes out at the perfect temperature every time. The only problem is when my friends think that it's a soap dispenser.

I am so tired right now, I want to die. Damn staying up late and getting up early. I just got myself a Rockstar, though, so I think I'll make it through work today.

morosemocha wrote:

Man...those energy drinks are putrid.

Sorry, but they are. I've had Rockstar, and I didn't care for that. I've had Redbull and Vodka, and I felt bad for the Vodka. It was pretty abysmal.

Plus I can't imagine that they're at all healthy for you.

Hee, I find it funny that I got as addicted to Lift Plus as I did, as generally speaking I can't stand energy drinks either -- which is why since moving here I haven't drunk anything of the sort. Red Bull is bleah, V is just disgusting, and although Sprite 3G is...drinkable...I drank Lift Plus for the really odd taste it has. I just love it. Although one must bear in mind that I also like both Vegemite and Marmite, so my sense of taste is somewhat unreliable at the best of times.

They're not good for you, incidentally, but then nothing is. I mean, the sugar isn't good for your glugagon/insulin levels, the caffeine screws with your ADH and various tensins (affecting kidney function and blood pressure) and although your body theoretically filters straight through any B vitamins it doesn't want we don't know anything for sure. But then, like I said, nothing is one hundred percent good for you. Hell, you can even do yourself in by drinking too much water, and I don't mean that in the sticking-your-head-in-a-bucket sense. You don't even need to OD on Ecstasy to drown by drinking water...everything should be in moderation. It just ends up being less fun that way...

And despite all the rumours about the aspartame in Lift Plus causing cancer, the first thing I do when I get back to New Zealand is down a can of the stuff. I mean, even if you didn't get exposed to any environmental carcinogens your natural DNA-spell-check is going to screw up on its own anyway one day and you could get cancer from the wrong base-pair that way. I just go by that exchange from Family Guy:

Brian: ...look at all those stars...
Stewie: You know, I've heard that starlight gives you cancer.
Brian: [silence]
Stewie: ...but then again, what doesn't these days?

The human body's an amazing thing, sure, but it wasn't built for durability, that's for sure.

Stormcrow wrote:

Curiously enough, while people do die on occasion from ODing on water, there have been no recorded cases of death due to marijuana.  Experts consider it impossible.  SAFER THAN WATER! 

I heard that water can become considered as "toxic" when drinking them at night.