The best caffeine?

Caffeine is not the real solution to being wide awake and perky.  Sleep and exercise is.  Apparently.  Who has time to exercise everyday?  Not me, cause I'm fucking lazy.  When I was exercising, I never felt really good afterwards.  I was tired and sweaty and was in need of a shower.  I didn't get to the end of exercising and felt good.  I didn't like it.  And who has it planned out to sleep for eight hours a night?  I try to, but end up staying awake until ten thirty or eleven and wake up at five thirty in the morning.  Not exactly eight hours of sleep.  So what do we do as people when we need more energy?  We drink caffeine.

I bring a thermos of coffee to work each day and people look at me like I'm some kind of nut for bringing that much coffee.  I make half a pot of coffee each day, drink a cup before work and bring the rest.  Drink a cup for my first break and usually have the rest at lunch time.  I say usually because there are days when I don't, but for the most part I do.  It saves on spending money on water or pop or whatever, but I also drink it because I enjoy coffee.  I enjoy the taste of it.  The caffeine is just an added bonus.  And it's a natural.  It comes from the coffee beans that the young children of Latin or South American slave over so I can enjoy it.    So it's natural and is proven to be good for you, but why don't more people drink it? 

Why are more people turning towards drinks like 5 hour energy, Monster, Red Bull, etc.?  Is it the marketing?  I know I see ads for energy drinks more often than for coffee and they advertise that they are better at keeping energy up than coffee.  I have a problem with it because it doesn't seem natural.  Here is a list of ingredients.  You'll notice some asterisk next to some of their claims to helping to keep the person taking it stay awake and energized.  And when you look at drinks like Red Bull and Monster, the majority of the ingredients are sugar or sugar-like products. 

Now, I know that sugar is a naturally occurring ingredient, but it is processed so much that it gets away from being natural.  Coffee beans are just roasted and ground.  That's it.  That's all.  And that's why coffee is better than energy drinks. 





Plus, douche bags sponsor energy drinks.  You don't want to be a douche, do you?