Anti-Caffeine Awareness Month?
AIDS, Diabetes, Down Syndrome, Student Safety, Purposeful Parenting, Cancer Control, Autism, Birth Defects Prevention… Awareness Month. Every single one of those awareness months have something in common: a unified, empirically backed, universally supported good intention. Heck, even Correct Posture Awareness Month has merit.
Why’s that? Because there are no disputes. No ongoing pivotal investigations that may undermine its sincerity. Correct posture = good. Incorrect posture = bad. Let’s become aware of that every May.
Caffeine. Its status? Undetermined. Un-de-f’ing-termined. We simply Do. Not. Yet. Know where caffeine stands concerning its interaction with our bodies. The case is still open. Disputes are still wildly raging on. Pioneering research is likely in progress as I type this very word. So what happens when we push a Caffeine Awareness Month? One of two things, both of them unacceptable.
Let’s just go with the title, Caffeine Awareness Month. What does this do to us as a people? It simply asks us to become aware of an unsolved debate. It begs of us to take time out of our days during that special month to research the status of both sides of the debate, and maybe formulate a personal opinion. Silly as that sounds, things are actually worse.
Let’s look at what this awareness month really is really pushing in its current state. Caffeine Awareness Month is currently proposed with the intention of asking people to become aware of the negative sides of caffeine. Wake up everyone, for just a second and realize what this is: a formulated weapon for an opposing team that preys on our innocence. How could it possibly be anything different? There are two very real sides to the caffeine debate, we ALL know this. So how could the formulation of an Awareness Month in the middle of the investigation be anything different?
We don’t need to get into the FACT that pro-caffeine arguments are empirically supported with raw data and scholarly publications. We don’t need to get into the FACT that caffeine has undisputed health benefits right alongside its known negative effects. We just need to acknowledge the FACT that the word is not out on caffeine yet, and we CAN NOT support a month that begs of our awareness of this state of affairs. It’s absolutely ludicrous, and downright insulting to our intelligence.
Nothing more needs to be said here. It’s truly that simple. Until we have our facts straight, this writer urges you to look the other way when it comes to supporting the adoption of Caffeine Awareness Month. That is unless you feel cell phone radiation brain cancer and magnetic healing bands deserve their own month, too, because then Caffeine Awareness Month is right down your alley.
Written by Dusty Smith
“It’s the idiots that don’t eat all day and have 5 super large jugs of Starbuck’s coffee and 5 energy drinks that are having the problems.” – chad
I agree, ANY drug taken irresponsibly is bad, and those people give the drug a bad name.
Has no one else noticed that the picture is pretty badly photoshopped.
I would agree with Caffeine Awareness Month if there were a slight modification to it. TOO Much Caffeine Awareness Month. Like Avery Hage said, I’ve never heard of anyone getting sick from drinking caffeine responsibly. It’s the idiots that don’t eat all day and have 5 super large jugs of Starbuck’s coffee and 5 energy drinks that are having the problems.
Sure thing, Dusty.
Thanks a bunch for your educated input, Avery. Good to know I’m not on an unpopulated limb with this one.
I agree with this completely, Dusty. This awareness month is absolutely ridiculous and absurd. I too am a caffeine junkie (I have an energy drink review blog) so you guys know where I stand. As long as you take in caffeine responsibly nothing bad is going to happen unless you are allergic. You guys know the stories: kid drinks several energy drinks and he gets sick. None of those stories talk about a time when a kid took caffeine responsibly and got sick. And yet those morons will continue to blame the “innocent” little energy drinks.
Just in case you didn’t know, this was written in response to this post:
http://www.energyfiend.com/2010/02/national-caffeine-awareness-month