Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us

Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us

â€œYouâ€™ll never think the same way about your morning cup of coffee.â€â€”Mark McClusky, editor in chief of Wired.com and author of Faster, Higher, Stronger
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Journalist Murray Carpenter has been under the influence of a drug for nearly three decades. And heâ€™s in good company, because chances are youâ€™re hooked, too. Humans have used caffeine for thousands of years. A bitter white powder in its most essential form, a tablespoon of it would kill even the most habituated user. This addictive, largely unregulated substance is everywhereâ€”in places youâ€™d expect (like coffee and chocolate) and places you wouldnâ€™t (like chewing gum and fruit juice), and Carpenter reveals its impact on soldiers, athletes, and even children. It can make you stronger, faster, and more alert, but itâ€™s not perfect, and its role in health concerns like obesity and anxiety will surprise you.

Making stops at the coffee farms of central Guatemala, a synthetic caffeine factory in China, and an energy shot bottler in New Jersey, among numerous other locales around the globe, Caffeinated exposes the high-stakes but murky world of caffeine, drawing on cutting-edge science and larger-than-life characters to offer an unprecedented understanding of Americaâ€™s favorite drug.
Country USA
Manufacturer Avery
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-03-13
Format Kindle eBook

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