{"id":276,"date":"2008-09-29T16:54:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/?p=276"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:09:13","slug":"energy-fiend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/energy-fiend\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Fiend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy drinks have come under a lot of fire recently&#8230;some of it &#8211; like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/you-kids-get-off-my-lawn\/\">obsessive hand-wringing over Red Bull<\/a> &#8211; is simply goofy, but some is perfectly legit. Red Bull itself doesn&#8217;t contain massive amounts of caffeine, but there are a number of drinks and &#8220;shooters&#8221; on the market now that pack quite a whallop. And &#8211; the reality is &#8211; lots of people (not just kids), don&#8217;t bother to read labels before slugging down something that tastes good. For some folks, &#8220;stimming&#8221; is a way of life &#8211; their posts on bodybuilding message boards (including the ones I moderate) confirm this.<\/p>\n<p>Acute high consumption of caffeine can cause <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/booster_shots\/2008\/09\/energy-drinks-c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caffeine intoxication<\/a>. Likewise, chronic intake can induce tolerance &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/Press_releases\/2004\/09_29_04.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subsequent withdrawal symptoms<\/a>. Thus, a little more awareness and common sense needs to be applied to the debate over energy drinks and overall caffeine consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caffeineinformer.com\/the-caffeine-database\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy Fiend<\/a> &#8211; a caffeine database created by two self-described &#8220;caffeine addicts,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caffeineinformer.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James &#8220;Caffeine Fiend&#8221; Foster and Ted Kallmyer.<\/a> Energy Fiend lists the caffeine content for over 300 popular\/commercial drinks and foods &#8211; so if you&#8217;re not sure about your caffeine intake from various sources, this is an excellent resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy drinks have come under a lot of fire recently&#8230;some of it &#8211; like the obsessive hand-wringing over Red Bull &#8211; is simply goofy, but some is perfectly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28],"tags":[288,289,290,291,589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8178,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}