Excess amount of caffeine intake may damage your health

Caffeine has many health benefits, but consuming more than the recommended amount may put your health risk.

According to a study, consuming more than the recommended level of caffeine a day may put your health at risk. Recently, European Food Safety Authority has proved that excess caffeine consumption could cause problems like increased heart rate, higher blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, tremors, nervousness, insomnia and panic attacks.

Usually 60 ml of expresso provides around 80 mg of caffeine while 200ml cup of filter coffee has around 90 mg, according to the ESPA reports. The EFSA said that up to 400mg a day from various food and drink should have no health consequences for healthy adults. Around a third of people in Denmark, 17% in the Netherlands and 14% in Germany consume more than 400mg.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said single doses of up to 200mg of caffeine from a range of sources such as tea, coffee, chocolate and energy drinks should be a safe level for most healthy adults.

By Lizitha