24th
May 2014
If your plan A
doesn’t work there are 25 more letters!
Quick one this
morning because I’ve got to leave the house at half seven, which is not the
norm on a Saturday as you can imagine… I’m covering a meeting for a leader so
she can have a weekend off, so I get to meet lots of different members, I
always enjoy this. Although I won’t be
doing much for the rest of the day as I’m tired, yep I crashed and burned
yesterday after doing so many hours at work over the last two weeks, yesterday
I just sat on my backside chilling all afternoon with no energy at all. We watched a movie called “The Heat” which
was very funny and one on Sky demand with Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx about the
White House that was good too, and X-Men (the first one) and I now want to
watch the rest of them and that was my afternoon. I did also use the time to look through some cookbooks
to start getting ideas for what I’d like to add to my menu plan for next week
and I have to say there’s so many different things to chose from, that I’m not going
to have to pick a few every week because I want to try them all. I’ll carry on with that this afternoon, not
decided whether to do my shopping online again, I might do.
I’ve just
caught up with my facebook notifications and yesterday I posted an advert from
a Weight Watcher magazine which was suggesting you drink nothing but water for
two weeks to raise money for the RNLI, great job they do, (http://www.h2only.org.uk/) I was amazed by
how many people said they couldn’t give up their coffee/diet coke, not their
booze but their caffeine. So this got me
curious and I’ve just done a bit of googling to the effects this stuff has on
our bodies because I have been drinking the odd can of diet coke and a cup or
two of coffee since cutting out the booze… Here are my findings…..
Caffeine is currently the world's most commonly used
drug! Wow
yeah I found that written on a website or two.
It’s a
stimulant drug, as is cocaine and meth! (I found that too)
The side
effects can range from unpleasant to severe, it speeds up the heart rate,
research shows that 360milligrams (the equivalent of about three and a half
cups of brewed coffee) is the amount where the heart rate is significantly
affects.
For most
people drinking it in moderation it isn’t necessarily harmful but if you’re
prone to anxiety, this may increase the likelihood of panic reactions, because caffeine
increases anxiety as well!
There was more
but it gone a bit deep and talked about heart attacks.
Caffeine also
raises blood pressure, affects our bone density and also sleep, according to
one site, if you drink a big cup of coffee with 200mg of caffeine at 4pm, by
10pm you’ll still have about 100mg in your body. By 4am you still have 50mg floating around in
your system, and even though you may be able to sleep you may not be able to
obtain the restful benefits of deep sleep.
The more coffee I’m guessing the worse that is.
So what else does
it stimulate? We know the brain – increasing
alertness, causing the difficulty with sleeping, relieving fatigue. It also stimulates respiration, the kidneys –
hence it’s diuretic effects. That’s
enough to be going on with!
The American
Heart Association says moderate coffee drinking one or two cups a day doesn’t
seem to be harmful for most people. As
always it’s about balance moderation is the key!
I drink so
much tea, now I’ve swapped some of that for coffee and the occasion can of diet
coke, it’s made me think that’s for sure and I’m sitting drinking a pint of
water this morning, I might have another one.
Here’s a chart I found for you to work out how much you’re consuming.
Have a great
day BeYOUtiful. x
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