Death by Caffeine
April 28th, 2008
Alfredo Duran hit the news for the first and the last time recently, as the 40 year old shift worker died of heart failure exacerbated by his four-can-a-day Red Bull habit. This gave me pause to reflect upon my own energy drink habit, currently standing at a can of Relentless each workday - primarily because a can of Relentless is twice the size of a can of Red Bull and half the price. Now, unlike the unfortunate Alfredo, I don’t have an underlying heart condition, but the question remains - how much is too much? Luckily, the internet has an answer for everything, and I’ve discovered the joy of The Caffeine Database, hosted by Energy Fiend. Not only does this site list all the energy drinks you’ve heard of (and a lot you haven’t), the list can be ordered by caffeine content per item or per ml. Even better, there’s a neat gadget that’ll calculate your lethal dosage of tea, coffee, or any other caffeinated drink.
30 cans, huh? Let’s hope they don’t mean ‘in one year’!
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6 Comments Add your own
1. misha | April 29th, 2008 at 6:18 am
if you get high each time you drink caffeine, will it help you not die? I think so…
2. Ian | April 29th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Ha ha, I’ve just this minute busted open a half-litre can of everyone’s favourite liquid crack. How else am I supposed to sustain a fully packed week of indoor climbing and draining?
As it happens, Relentless is a little more than half the price of a can of Red Bull. In fact, they are usually similarly priced. Interesting enough, on the back of the Relentless can it says, ‘No Half Measures’ - a little dig at Red Bull perhaps?
3. Drowned | April 29th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
How timely. In the past few months I’ve also discovered that Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and the distibutor that supplies my local corner shop all sell own branded energy drinks. And they’re cheap. So for about a pound I can get 1L of energy drink. This casues my coworkers endless problems. Relenteless is still the King however. I have an empty and a full tin on my desk. I’m not sure I can bring myself to open the second this late in the day.
4. Ian | April 30th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Do it. It’s payday, so I’m off to buy a multipack.
5. boof | May 18th, 2008 at 12:05 am
You weigh 70 pounds? are you a midget or do you have an eating disorder?
6. Frank the SciencePunk | May 18th, 2008 at 1:04 am
I was waiting for someone to reverse engineer that answer.Truth is I put my weight in kilos in the lbs box by accident. And being a lazy boy, I left it for someone else to uncover..
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