How Much Caffeine Would It Take...

[wrdbrn]

this was amusing... have fun!

http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/

258.95 cans of Cherry Coke before croaking --HIgh School drink of choice and super easy access as I worked the lunch counter at the local drug store

195.65 cans of TAB - in nineteen hundred and sevasdfnasdlfeeeerrr something it was my college energy drink of choice.. during finals I could have come dangerously close... wow... who knew

158.72 cups of brewed coffee at this point in time... holy jamolie... how sad...

[fencergal33]

Wow.....it would take 120 cups of coffee to kill me....some days, I think I've come close.

[Coldfire]

281 cans of coke to kill me...

[SpyderLily]

yea... I have issues with caffiene, so I'd probably be gone after a nicely-sized pack of Mountain Dews... but those weren't mentioned, so I guess I'll go with about 24 cokes.

Oh well, guess I'm a pansy instead of a spider lily.

[mrbiggs]

381 Cans O' Coke --about twice my body weight

121 Cups O' Coffee --about a third of my body weight

I don't think I have much to worry about...

[Roseonurcoffin]

nothing can burn me out..EVER!

well maybe this much coffeee

You could drink 6348.20 cups of Brewed Coffee before croaking

[UNO Sabrer]

140 cans of Vault.... but Vault doesn't come in cans.

[DE_Strip_Tease]

After 273.00 bottles of Arizona Green Tea, you'd be pushing up daisies

[Inquartata]

Bah. One can of Coke, properly applied to the cranium at high velocity, would do for any of you.

[Zelda]

You could drink 2007.21 glasses of Chocolate Milk before croaking.
After 93.36 cups of Brewed Coffee, you'd be pushing up daisies

I have NO coffee tolerence so 93.36 cups is probably too much.

[fencergal33]

I played a bit more....


You could drink 324.19 cans of Slim-Fast Cappuccino Delight Shake before croaking.


447.16 cans of A&W Creme Soda + You = Death


After 117.89 cans of Beaver Buzz, you'd be pushing up daisies


I don't know what "Beaver Buzz" is....but it certainly sounds like something other than a drink!

[Aqua_volans]

apparently nobody has mentioned black tea. it has the highest caffeine content in any drink. even more than red bull....

[fencergal33]

864.50 cups of Green Tea + You = Death

432.25 cups of Brewed Tea + You = Death

216.13 cups of Brewed Imported Tea + You = Death


(That's what I could find for tea)

[RITFencing]

It would take 379.17 cans of tab to do me in... good thing I stopped last night at 379.169.

[Black Jeebus]

apparently nobody has mentioned black tea. it has the highest caffeine content in any drink. even more than red bull....

Umm you are aware that what most of the world drinks is called black tea right? So I'm pretty sure when they say brewed tea that's what they mean, oh and that also means your patently wrong!

[Black Jeebus]

It would take 101.65 cans of Full Throttle to put you down

I wonder if that takes into account the effect of the alcohol on your body? Just for those of you who haven't laughed your *** off at the very idea of Full Throttle, it's an energy drink made by Budweiser. Now doesn't that sound wonderful, all the crappy taste of beer mixed with the crappy taste of energy drink... yay -_-

[swordwench]

So, is this all in one sitting, or over a period of time?

I see no menu option for my Starbucks double shot mocha frappuccino, or even my double-shot venti cappuccino - hence, the game is flawed.

But it was interesting to see how many Diet Cokes it will take to kill me. (It will take a LOT, apprently.) The good news is, I won't have gained any weight - except water weight, of course.

[Epee_Pox]

Source: University of Toronto
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A cup of coffee in the morning may seem innocuous enough, but new research shows that coffee may put some people at risk of suffering a myocardial infarction (heart attack). While a link has been suspected for some time, research into the connection between coffee consumption and cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction (MI) has so far drawn a blank. This is partly because caffeine also contains a number of other chemicals that may work independently, or in combination with caffeine, to produce an adverse affect on health.

But since coffee is the most widely consumed stimulant in the world and second only to oil in the global commerce stakes, it would be helpful to know whether caffeine is indeed responsible for an adverse effect. After all, a few cups of Joe aren't worth your health are they (well, actually…)? As it turns out, some new findings concerning caffeine and its effects on human metabolism have just been made public by Ahmed El-Sohemy, of the University of Toronto.

Caffeine is predominantly metabolized in the liver by an enzyme called cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2), but according to Sohemy's study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a genetic variation of this enzyme dictates the rate at which caffeine is metabolized.

El-Sohemy's team set about devising an experiment to discover whether variations of the CYP1A2 enzyme are linked to a greater risk of non-fatal MI. Two-thousand patients with a first acute non-fatal heart attack and an equal number of controls were scrutinized between 1994 and 2004. Determining the subjects' genotypes was necessary for the experiment, as was a food frequency questionnaire used to track the quantities of caffeinated coffee consumed by the participants.

The team found that 55 percent of MI cases and 54 percent of controls were carriers of the gene variant CYP1A2*1F allele, which means that they metabolize caffeine very slowly. The team claims that a slow metabolizer of caffeine who drinks 2-3 cups of coffee in a day has a 36 percent increased risk of a non-fatal MI. But the risk of an MI in those who drank 4 or more cups of coffee a day shot up to a staggering 64 percent.

Younger individuals in the slow genotype group showed that they were at even greater risk. For those younger than 59 who drank 4 or more cups of coffee the risk increased 2-fold, while for those under the age of fifty, the risk increased 4-fold.

"We found that increased coffee intake is associated with an increased risk of non-fatal MI. The association between coffee and MI was found only among individuals with the slow CYP1A2*1F allele, which impairs caffeine metabolism, suggesting that caffeine plays a role in the association," the authors concluded.

[gtmac]

I contest the results of this site's analysis.

After 111.25 cans of Pimp Juice, I'd be pushing up daisies?

I've had a lot more Pimp Juice than that and I'm stilll rollin'.

[fencergal33]

I think it means in one sitting.