Energy drinks have little to any benefit. Energy drinks have little to any benefit because of how many unnecessary and unknown ingredients are included in the energy drinks and because they won’t increase energy levels. Energy drink companies use many ingredients in their concoction of an energy drink that are unknown or unnecessary. One example of these ingredient is glucuronolactone. This ingredient was tested on rats, it states in paragraph 11 “scientists injected large doses of the substance into laboratory rats.…
The main purpose of an energy drink is to increase stamina and physical performance. With the consumption of caffeine the person will increase performance.…
a. The ingredient that provides energy is Caffeine. Caffeine does this by mimicking epinephrine, which stimulates the body.…
Most athletic energy drinks contain vitamins. Vitamins are organic molecules that mainly function as catalysts for reactions within the body. Among these vitamins the B-vitamin is very abundant in energy drinks and is very important to the body.…
The article “Anti-energy Drinks: Relaxation in a Can” explains the recent release of anti-energy drinks. Anti-energy drinks are meant to provide an opposite effect that the current energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster. These beverages, unlike energy drinks, are being marketed to help people unwind while offering an alternative to drugs and alcohol. Matt Moody, founder of Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda says "When you are stressed out, normally you'd have a drink, you can't walk around smelling like vodka all day.” (Park, February 9, 2011, p. 5) Certain producers of these anti-energy drinks have even laced marijuana or ingredients to mimic the effect of marijuana. The article mentions that critics have questioned the safety of these drinks…
The first energy drink was created in 1987 in Japan by a Japanese man named Dietrich Mateschitz. Mateschitz was the man who created the infamous energy drink, Red Bull. He got the concept of the energy drink from Taisho Pharmaceuticals in Japan, when they released a drink called Lipovitan-D that contained many ingredients that you see today in energy drinks. RedBull quickly became popular in Europe then spread around the world. The many ingredients in energy drinks are extremely dangerous. Caffeine, sugar, ginseng, guarana, ginkgo biloba, tauting, inositol, B vitamins, and antioxidants are just some of the ingredients in energy drink that, in large quantities, can be deadly.”(How exactly Do Energy Drinks...3). They are addicting and should not be consumed in large quantities.”One of the concerns in energy…
The popular demand for energy drinks have placed a certain focus on side effects of consuming these drinks when it comes to children and adolescents. The label reads that children should not consume it, but what defines the term children?…
Energy drinks are promoted as enhancing behavioural outcomes by reversing fatigue effects and consequently increasing alertness and endurance (Heckman, Sherry, & de Mejia, 2010). Ingredients may include caffeine, taurine, glucuronolactone, sugars, and other B vitamins and herbal extracts. Despite the range of constituents, researchers generally claim caffeine as the core ingredient responsible for the stimulatory effects of energy drinks (Reissig, Strain, & Griffiths, 2009). However, recent research has suggested a synergistic interplay between energy drink constituents, with greater performance benefits conferred by the whole beverage than expected from the caffeine content alone (Marczinski et al., 2011 and Scholey and Kennedy, 2004). For example, Scholey and Kennedy (2004) reported that energy drink consumption improved performance on ‘secondary memory’ and ‘attentional speed’ factors relative to placebo, with no significant improvement in performance following independent caffeine ingestion. However, Scholey and Kennedy (2004) note that independent caffeine effects may have been detected with increased power, particularly in light of the small sample size used in this exploratory study (N = 20).…
How much would you pay for a drink that revitalizes your body and gives you the feeling of full awareness or even more than normal focus on your everyday tasks? If you are willing to pay the price of a stunt in your growth, seizures, or even your life; energy drinks are for you. Energy drink have become increasingly popular over the last decade due to their promise of increased energy and focus and their easy accessibility to the public of any age. Many people have lost their lives due to allergic reaction to some of the complex wording of its ingredients. Energy drinks have become the shortcut to quick short term energy but could end up being the long term cause of poor health.…
According to the Colorado Gazette, Redline drink and others have been linked to health complications. Like heart problems, hypertension, and others. In Colorado, a school banned these kind of drinks and recommended a 7-11 store to stop selling these. A 15 year old girl, an athlete, was drinking the REDLINE POWER RUSH energy drink, and passed violently shaking and extreme salivitation, she died. several others have been reporting going to the er for chest tightness, shortness of breath, severe heart palpitations, increased heart rate, fixed and dilated pupils and hypertension.…
Attention Grabber: It’s 2a.m and you haven’t even started on the communications assignment due in a couple of hours. You’re sleepy and tired because you just got out of a 12-hour shift over at work. What’s going to give you the energy to stay up and complete this assignment? The most obvious answer, an energy drink. But do you really know what happens inside your body after consuming one of these drinks?…
All the caffeine in energy drinks can make them feel awake and make them drink a whole lot more. It can also give people problems sleeping. Mixing energy drinks and alcohol has been getting more and more popular. But now people are researching it and they’ve found that the mixed drinks are even more dangerous than regular alcohol. The reason for this is that the caffeine speeds up your body while alcohol slows it down. Thirteen studies between 1981 and 2016 shows that the drinks can lead to increased risk of falls, fighting and accidents. Energy drinks contain lots of caffeine, usually about 80mg in a 250ml can - the same as a mug of coffee. However, a 330ml can of classic Coca-Cola…
A story in the New York Times noted that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received reports of 13 deaths linked to an energy drink. The drinks contain about 215 milligrams of caffeine, more than enough, health specialists say, to sicken children and some adults, and even send some of them to the hospital.…
In recent years the consumption of energy drinks combined with alcohol has become popular for young adults in North America. Energy drinks are caffeinated beverages that intend to provide a burst of energy and/or enhance alertness. The principle active ingredients in energy drinks are caffeine, high doses of sugar (or a sugar substitute), they generally include B vitamins, an amino acid, and plant/herbal extracts. Alcohol is a highly addictive and most commonly abused drug in North America that can impair vision, speech, memory, concentration, and reaction times along with other things. These energy drinks being a stimulant combined with alcohol being a depressant, can make a deadly cocktail for many reasons.…
The high use of caffeinated energy drinks is alarming and caution should be taken in their use. These days the consumption of energy drink brands like Red Bull, Monster have become more of a fashion then a necessity. The ingredients of these energy drinks contain high levels of stimulants, one of the most important being “taurine”. But students feel comfortable with these drinks attributing its effects to be helpful in exam preparation for prolonged studying ability.…