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Friday, June 10, 2011

Dangers of Excessive Consumption of Coffee

This article may give warning to those who avidly sipping coffee. Drinking coffee is to provide health benefits within certain limits. But if you drank it in excessive amounts can actually bring misfortune.
New research by scientists at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia indicates, coffee drinking five or more drinks every day can lead to hallucinations. In an experiment, a number of volunteers who drank caffeine high levels of auditory hallucinations. They claim as if it heard the ricochet of music, but the song was not played.
The scientists suggest that caffeine is a type of psychoactive substances are used widely. According to them, this research indicates the importance of warning that there is a health risk if consumed in excessive coffee.
"The combination of caffeine with stress can affect the tendency of a person experiencing psychosis-like symptoms," said Professor Simon Crowe, from La Trobe University.
In his research, Prof Crowe involving 92 volunteers experiencing stress conditioned either mild or severe. Volunteers are also given different types of coffee with caffeine levels vary. As many as 15 percent of the volunteers reported experiencing hallucinations or delusional experiences such as hearing voices, seeing shadows of ghosts, or felt the telepathy.
"If you stress and high levels of caffeine in one drink, you may be experiencing something that is not real, see things that are not there," said Crowe. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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