and coffee and are they safe? There are hundreds of different brands of energy drinks being marketed and their caffeine content per can or bottle ranges from just 50 mg to as much as 505 mg (Weise‚ 2008). Energy drinks are most commonly consumed by people 11-35 years old (Ballard et al.‚ 2010). Energy drink companies can say anything they want about energy and performance effects of the drinks‚ and while some energy drinks are banned in some countries‚ none are banned in the United States (Higgins
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Marlyn Perez Reflection Paper - Alcohol/Drugs Drug and alcohol use on college campuses is universal. Students articulate many reasons why they do it‚ but most neglect to consider both the long-term consequences of their actions. How wide-spread is drug and alcohol abuse? Teenagers today admit to extensive experimentation. According to one study‚ 90 percent of teens said that they have used alcohol‚ over 50 percent have used marijuana‚ 17 percent have used cocaine and 13 percent have used
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is among the top preventable risk factors of heart disease amongst many other health problems. Coronary heart disease and strokes are the primary types of cardiovascular disease caused by smoking. They rank as the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. More than 61 million Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease. Smoking increases your risk for high blood pressure‚ coronary heart disease‚ stroke‚ congestive heart failure‚ and aneurysms to name a few. More
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Caffeine is a drug that is used to improve mental alertness by stimulating the central nervous system [1]. It is an ingredient found in a various amount of products sold on the market today‚ such as coffee‚ tea‚ chocolate‚ soft drinks‚ and energy drinks. Caffeine can be taken by mouth or intravenously (by IV) to help alleviate breathing problems in infants and can even be used in combination with some pain killers to treat migraines after epidural anesthesia. Moreover‚ it can be helpful in preventing
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Caffeine Topic: Caffeine General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech‚ my audience should understand the beneficial effects of caffeine‚ the negative effects and discuss what are considered safe levels of caffeine consumption. Thesis Statement: The three areas I will cover in my speech are the beneficial effects of caffeine‚ the negative effects and discuss what are considered safe levels of caffeine consumption. Introduction Attention-Getter: If you
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disappointment. When his military lost to France‚ they made John sign the Magna Carta in 1215‚ “which became the cornerstone of English justice and law” (McKay et al.‚ 2015‚ pg. 396). The Magna Carta was simply meant to assert traditional rights enjoyed by certain groups‚ but in time it came to signify the broader principle that everyone‚ including the king and the government‚ must obey the law. Because later generations referred to the Magna Carta as a written statement of English liberties‚ it gradually
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The popular name for Daphnia is ‘water fleas’ because they resemble fleas in shape and movement. Unlike fleas‚ which are insects‚ Daphnia are crustaceans classified under the scientific order‚ Cladocera. The purpose of this experiment was to examine the alertness of Daphnia ambigua alertness at different temperatures. It involved the incubation of 30 Daphnia ambigua in three 100ml beakers. Exposing each beaker to a different temperature revealed that temperature of the surrounding environment had
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Computing Caffeine Informative Speech John Cedrick D. Balaguer BSIT 3 English 3 : Speech and Oral Communication Skills 1st Semester S.Y. 2013 – 2014 July 17‚ 2014 1 of 1 Caffeine has been used widely around the world over centuries‚ and today it is estimated that 80% of the world’s adult population consumes caffeine in one form or another. What is it about caffeine that has made it so popular? To begin with‚ one of the first characteristic effects of caffeine is its ability
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The Caffeine War can be defined as the rush to produce higher concentrations of caffeine to a captive audience‚ by the world’s producers of caffeine products. While there may be many forms of introducing caffeine to customers this report will focus on and compare the Coffee industry and the producers of Energy Drink products while attempting to define their impact and any resulting long term medical harm to the consumer. According to Dr. Howard Axe‚ President of the Chicago Medical society‚ his research
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ways that could both help us and harm us? Truth be told‚ there is. Caffeine is renowned for being the world’s most widely consumed psychoactive drug‚ but it is also known for literally shaking up our bodies by affecting our nervous systems. The drug can be good for us in some ways‚ but also bad in other ways. This makes it tricky and debatable whether caffeine is more helpful or more harmful. Inside the neurotransmitter‚ caffeine causes receptors to receive more dopamine chemicals by blocking off
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