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WHAT IS A DANGEROUSAMOUNT OF COFFEE?

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We have written a lot about the health

effects of coffee.

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In general more coffee is better in

reducing your risk of type II diabetes,

Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression

and various types of cancer.

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But what is a dangerous amount of

coffee if you get carried away?

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Mashable reports that the world’s

strongest coffee which is served in

Adelaide, Australia at the Viscous Café is pretty strong.

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A cafe is serving up the coffee to rival

all others and it looks almost fatal.

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The suitably-named Ass Kicker is being

served at Viscous Cafe in Adelaide,

Australia and it contains the caffeine

equivalent of 80 standard cups-o-joe.

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Legend has it, the first incarnation of

the beverage was made for an

emergency department nurse who

needed to stay awake.

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The drink was consumed over a period

of two days and kept the nurse up for three days in total.

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A regular eight ounce cup of coffee

contains about 95 milligrams of

caffeine.

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Heavy coffee drinkers (five cups a day)

consume just less than 500 milligrams.

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A large coffee served at the Australian

café contains five grams (5,000

milligrams) of caffeine.

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Is that a dangerous amount of coffee?

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The café has a sign warning folks with high blood pressure, heart disease.

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Lethal Dose of Caffeine

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According to experts the lethal dose of

caffeine is around 10 grams for an

adult.

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That would be two cup of the Australian

coffee chugged down back to back.

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According to Popular Science

discusses how much caffeine it would

take to kill you.

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It turns out that document death from caffeine overdose is rare.

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So if a true caffeine overdose is so

rare, why has caffeine-perhaps the

most widely used drug in North

America-been blamed for contributing

to a handful of deaths over the years?

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Perhaps because it almost always

works in concert with other far more

nefarious factors such as alcohol or

heart conditions.

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Individuals with heart diseases that

predispose to fatal rhythm disturbances

are more likely to die from a large

amount of coffee than someone with a

totally healthy heart.

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Too much caffeine raises blood

pressure.

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If you already have high blood pressure

and drink a large amount of coffee, or

one of the Australian varieties, you may

see a dangerous spike in your

pressure.

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Systolic pressure over 180 or diastolic

over 120 constitutes a hypertensive

crisis.

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This requires immediate attention and

treatment to prevent stroke, heart

attack, loss of kidney function and

more.

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In short what is a dangerous amount of

coffee is different if you are totally

young and healthy versus if you have

heart problems, high blood pressure or

other conditions that may be made worse by too much caffeine.

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Common Sense

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If you need to stay awake on the road

and want to use coffee for that purpose

stick with a normal cup of strong coffee

and stop every couple of hours to refill.

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This way you will not be taking a chance of having an overdose.