Daniel Barkowitz | September 25, 2008
"A Man and His Latte"
Sorry, Chris, I couldn't resist!
As I was drinking my cup of Starbucks coffee on my way to MIT this morning, I heard the following story on my iPod from NPR. "Warning, Energy Drinks Contain Caffeine."
The story is actually better than the title. According to the web description:
Morning Edition, September 24, 2008 ยท Researchers are calling for warning labels on energy drinks. The drinks contain substantial amounts of caffeine, which could lead to symptoms associated with a caffeine overdose, including heart palpitations and insomnia. The energy drinks are marketed to adolescents, who haven't developed a tolerance to caffeine.
Just my daily dose of looking out for you...
Now, back to my venti skinny vanilla latte!
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I bow to your title-formulating skills.
Posted by: Yan Z. on September 25, 2008 10:22 PM
I don't know... Fryday on Sunday was pretty awe-inspiring.
Posted by: Daniel Barkowitz on September 25, 2008 10:26 PM
LOL I just realized what is so funny about your title...-__-"
Posted by: Oasis '11 on September 26, 2008 01:13 AM
How can a Venti from Starbucks be skinny?
Posted by: Alex on September 26, 2008 02:02 AM
Mr. Barkowitz becoming "a man of the blogs" with daily entries. You have some tough competition these days, Snively!
Posted by: Anonymous on September 26, 2008 02:35 AM
There's nothing really wrong with a bit of caffeine. It's just crazy how some energy drinks pump their drinks with more caffeine than would be effective. But it does make a bit of sense. When I was a wee adolescent, I used to compare caffeine levels to see which drink was cooler to buy. Ah, yes, caffeine replaced alcohol when you're a teen in a predominantly Muslim country :P
These days caffeine pills exist, which is a bit pointless seeing how every regular coffee drinker knows that caffeine only makes a difference if you're not used to it already.
Posted by: Muz on September 26, 2008 09:20 AM
What! Since when do energy drinks contain caffeine??
Though, I think they should label. When the caffeine level is over 10x that of soda, it might be nice for the label to give users a heads-up ;).
Posted by: Piper on September 26, 2008 06:51 PM
I like Cappuccino and Frappe anyway. Although I don't overdose :)
Posted by: Ashwath on September 27, 2008 03:30 AM
Not to be picky or anything, but you spelt "vanilla" wrong. You wrote "vanila."
Just pointing it out...
Posted by: Banerjee on September 27, 2008 05:53 AM
haha at some-soft dot com the word is misspelled "avarage"
@Banerjee
Is that you Anwesha? I know it's a common surname but not too common in the US.
Posted by: philip bauer on September 27, 2008 11:03 PM
I really wonder how coffee makes people stay awake..
I am pretty clueless about this since I drink maybe 2 small ice coffees a year when the dunkin donuts next to my school gives out their free ice coffees, haha.
so anyways, are you still tired after you drink coffee but just can't fall asleep or are you not tired at all?
Posted by: deng on September 28, 2008 08:03 PM
well,coffee is ok,you dont need to care so much,
'coz ull enjoy the coffee.and the coffee wont hurt too much,then everything goes well.
do remember,lets just relax!
Posted by: kevin on September 30, 2008 08:31 AM
