{"id":191664,"date":"2025-10-11T00:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191664\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:27:24","slug":"how-much-caffeine-is-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191664\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it comes as coffee, tea, soda, or a huge can of Monster, most Americans get their caffeine fix in the morning: The Food and Drug Administration estimates that four of every five<\/a> of us are jolting ourselves awake with caffeine every day. Thankfully, we’re also almost all staying under the level at which it becomes acutely worrisome. (The Mayo Clinic puts that number at 400 milligrams per day<\/a>, or the equivalent of four cups of coffee or 10 cans of soda.) And there are lots of reasons to think caffeine is actually pretty healthy\u2014even beyond the burst of energy that improves people’s lives in obvious ways.<\/p>\n

But even if you’re not using a gallon of cold brew to get through the day, there could be reasons to consider cutting back.<\/p>\n

Coffee Isn’t (Necessarily) the Enemy<\/p>\n

While some studies in the past have linked coffee to conditions like heart disease, they were flawed\u2014most participants in those studies also smoked. As recently as last spring, Frank Chu, chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health noted that coffee is linked to a number of positive effects<\/a>: a lower likelihood of type 2 diabetes, liver cancer, Parkinson\u2019s disease, and, yes, heart disease.<\/p>\n

Of course, this assumes that your coffee consumption is moderate; Chu says that\u2019s between two and five cups a day for most people. In his new book, Michael Pollan points out<\/a> that excess consumption\u2014something like eight cups a day\u2014is linked to anxiety and even higher rates of suicide.<\/p>\n

If drinking multiple cups of coffee has you running to the bathroom frequently, that\u2019s something else to watch: Peeing more can mean you\u2019re losing nutrients like calcium<\/a>. But this doesn’t have to be a huge problem: You could balance that out by eating leafy greens or even a handful of nuts.<\/p>\n

What Else Is In Your Caffeine?<\/p>\n

Not everyone loves black coffee. And if you’re adding a big glug of cream and a couple spoonfuls of sugar, you’ve got to account for that too. Caffeinated sodas can be an option for people who don\u2019t enjoy coffee, but those have obvious problems. One can of Coca-Cola contains 39 grams of sugar<\/a>, which is over 80% of the recommended daily intake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether it comes as coffee, tea, soda, or a huge can of Monster, most Americans get their caffeine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[6948,1991,102,6636,9012,56,54,55,307,7268],"class_list":{"0":"post-191664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-coffee","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-nutrition","12":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-web","17":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}