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We're doing a little something edumacational today!
Today's poll contains a list of 8 ways to overdose (and croak) from caffeine (courtesy of the Center for Disease Control). If you would like to explore the deadly potential of your favorite beverage, go to www.energyfiend.com and take the test. There's a lengthy drop-down list of possibilities. Personally, I don't believe any of this because our government loves to invent new ways to frighten us- and I guess caffeine is on the hit list today.
The problem is, they always change their mind. 25 years ago, the Henny Penny crowd (now busy with today's bogus global warming nonsense) was urging us to give up eggs. "That Grand Slam breakfast will kill you!", they warned.
Then, a few years later, they changed their mind and began extolling the virtues of the egg as a source of protein and good cholesterol.
Shut up already, CDC! Leave us alone! Get a life! These are the same people that gave us SARS, and Bird Flu and made us get shots for epidemics that never broke out.
Time Magazine stopped looking for dirt on Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber long enough to offer these additional insights potentially harmful caffeine sources.
A single serving of Jelly Belly Extreme Sport Jelly Beans . . . which means only 14 jelly beans . . . contains about 50 milligrams of caffeine.
--Just one Jolt Caffeinated Energy Mint has 30 milligrams of caffeine.
--A single serving of Morning Spark caffeinated oatmeal contains 80 milligrams of caffeine.
--A three and a half ounce bag of Sumseed Sunflower Seeds has 120 milligrams of caffeine.
--A three and a half ounce bag of NRG Potato Chips has 350 milligrams of caffeine.
--And it turns out it's not just our food that's spiked with caffeine, because a four-ounce bar of Bath Buzz caffeinated soap . . . contains 2,400 milligrams of caffeine.
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