Jake Mager English 104 30 April 2012 This PowerPoint is about caffeine and how it is over all unhealthy. I used mainly questions in order to keep the audience interested. The slide with the question asking “Is drinking coffee or energy drinks worth the side effects?” has no picture in order for the audience to focus on that question and come up with their own conclusion that should align with the conclusion on the next slide. Some of the pictures I chose to use are a bit shocking but I felt as if that would support my case very well.

1. Is Caffeine a health hazard?

2. So Many People Drink It!

3. Caffeine Dinkers
10%
people that do
people that don’t
90%

4. The Reason They Drink It?

5. For wakefulness, enhance mood and
cognition, and produce stimulatory
effects.

6. How Could Caffeine Be Bad?

7. It’s Addictive

8. Caffeine withdrawal includes
headache, lethargy, irritability, and mental fuzzy-
headedness. Some or all can occur among many
daily caffeine consumers who abruptly stop their
intake.
– Sally Satel

9. Sleep Deprivation

10. In moderation, it can be used as a short-term
stimulant to improve performance that is
impaired because of unavoidable sleep
deprivation
- Simon Joseph

11. Various Other Problems
Such As…

12. Caffeine increases blood pressure, plasma
catecholamine levels, plasma renin
activity, serum free fatty acid levels, urine
production, and gastric acid secretion
– Tony Chou

13. Question For You!

14. Is drinking coffee or energy drinks
worth the side effect?

15. Conclusion
Caffeine may have some
benefits but is definitely over
all bad for the user and if you
are drinking coffee or energy
drinks daily you should
consider stopping for your
health.

16. Works Cited
Chou, T. (1992). Wake up and smell the coffee caffeine, coffee, and the
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20 Apr. 2012.
Satel, S. (2006). Is Caffeine Addictive?—A Review of the Literature.
American Journal Of Drug & Alcohol Abuse, 32(4), 493-502.
doi:10.1080/00952990600918965 Web. 19 Apr. 2012.
Simon, J. (2001). Caffeine addiction and its effects. Nursing
Times, 97(31), 42. Web. 19 Apr. 2012.
Yang, A., Palmer, A., & de Wit, H. (2010). Genetics of caffeine
consumption and responses to caffeine.
Psychopharmacology, 211(3), 245-257. Web. 17 Apr. 2012.