Drinking Energy Drinks

About 80% of American adults consume 200 mg of caffeine a day. “A 12-oz. (tall) coffee from Starbucks will run you about 260 mg, while a 14-oz. Dunkin’ Donuts coffee contains 178 mg.” The daily intake of caffeine differed between products; one should always check the amount before consumption. There are no limits on how many energy drinks a person can purchase, which make it easy to abuse. Especially in younger children the addiction rate outstandingly high. Which may lead to other drug usage in the future and the committal dependence on stronger drugs.

Once you consume an energy drink your whole body is affected including you brain, your bloodstream, your heart, and your skin. Energy drinks are really bad for you if you drink it a lot; they say it could affect how you work out because energy drinks lead to sugar crashes. You don’t want to work out and in the middle of your work out, you get tired all of the sudden, if you drink one after you work out you would just get tired and you will start to crash. My opinion you should not drink energy drinks at all while working out. The things they put in it, it’s just not worth drinking it during your work out

Consumption of energy drinks has become increasingly popular over the past 10 years. Particularly marketed towards adolescents and young adults, a 2008 study on energy drinks found that advertisements for these drinks are similar to those for alcohol and tobacco. Although not recommended for ‘children,’ energy drinks are still consumed by younger generations. Would it be better for there to be age restrictions on energy drinks?

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The survey found that the most commonly consumed energy drink brands were; Rockstr Energy Drink, Monster Energy, Red Bull Energy Drink, Redline Extreme Energy, and Amp Energy Boost Original Sugar Free. These energy drinks all have similar ingredients with varying amounts of caffeine and “blend” combinations.

Answer: Energy drink manufacturers advertise energy drinks as booting your energy levels, sleeplessness, and to help you become more aware. However, the larger amounts of caffeine and other supplements are sometimes not properly reported. In a study of over 3, 600 adults, the excessive amount of caffeine predisposed the participants to anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and many more.

More and more people are starting to buy energy drinks, but do not know what is in or what is giving them that energy. Particularly teens are starting to use the drinks, because it brings a mental and physical edge. Yet people don’t know that the drinks are now under scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration. There has been reports of deaths and serious injuries linked the high

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience energy drinks drunken excessively are bad for your health

It is argued whether there should be a restriction on the accessibility of caffeinated energy drinks to children under the age of seventeen because the side effects that these drinks provide are highly dangerous to the bodies of children of this age. (Brown University), Energy drinks contain large doses of caffeine that range from 75mg to over 200mg per serving and also contain other legal stimulants. As this substance is widely used by children under the age of seventeen the affects of the drinks have social and economical affects such as the long and short term side affects of the substance, who is gaining from these affects and who is losing and the affects of caffeine as well as the other products used to create the addicting energy

The several research on articles have been done to study the effects of ingestion of caffeinated energy drink before, during or after exercise to determine its outcome on the performance of the athletes. All the articles showed a positive association between caffeinated energy drink and strength. The ingestion of caffeine 3-6mg per body weight proved to enhance the strength of players and improved their performance. The athletes should not intake more than 6mg per body weight as it can lead to various side effects and adversely affect the body and also consumption of caffeine less than 3mg per kilogram showed no effect on the body. Although, the caffeinated energy drink proved to enhance the strength but the mechanism of the strength improvement

This project involves comparing the differences between sports energy drink within the country and outside of the country. The goal of the project is determining whether 30 random sports drinks have more sugar than the other 30 sports drinks based off of location in the world. The main results of the project appeared to the examiner that when using stem and leaf plots, relative tables, histograms, boxplots, skewness, that when bringing all of this information together there’s proof of deciding which location adds more grams of sugar per serving in one bottle of a sports energy drink.

The consumption of alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmEDs) is becoming increasingly popular amongst young adults and university students worldwide (Droste, Tonner, Zinkiewicz, Pennay, Lubman & Miller, 2014; Mallet, Marzell, Scaglione, Hultgren & Turrisi, 2014; Marczinski, Filmore, Henges, Ramsey & Young, 2013). In Australia it is estimated that almost half of eighteen to twenty-four year olds have used AmEDs, as well as 10% of them stating they use them weekly (Droste et al., 2014). Motives for high levels of AmED use by young adults is due to feelings of increased energy and alertness, as 70% of young adults state they feel “more energetic” using AmEDs compared to alcohol alone, the ability to consume more alcohol, as energy drinks can “hide”

Another issue with consuming energy drinks is that their ingredient make-up is not typically provided to the consumer in the form of a nutrition label (Marczinski et al. 2014). The issue with this is that the consumer really has no idea what he or she is consuming. This can be potentially dangerous in its self because this common energy blend that is present in most energy drinks can hold many types of psychoactive compounds such as caffeine and guarana which primarily affect the brain and mind (Marczinski et al. 2014). However, there are many common ingredients that energy drinks contain as well as naturally include hidden sources of caffeine (Higgins et al. 2010). Take Guarana for instance, this is a common ingredient in most, if not all

People are innately curious beings and experimentation plays a huge part in that curiosity. With that experimenting comes new and sometimes dangerous trends which seem to take over society and become a part of the norm. These trends can include everything from the clothes you wear to the activities you do. One trend that has been particularly troubling has been mixing energy drinks with alcohol. I remember when energy drinks became popular. You saw your peers drinking them and even celebrities were photographed drinking them. They became the cool thing to drink and before you knew it bartenders were serving these drinks at bars and restaurants. The combination of those two types of drinks which cause opposing effects on the body with one being an upper and the other a downer (look up) can have dire consequences on your body.

Energy drinks are the largest growing area of the United States beverage industry since, being they were first introduced to the market in 1987. Today, the U.S. market for energy drinks is estimated at $35 billion and is expected to grow the reach $53 billion by the year 2016. The United States is one the world's largest consumer by volume of energy drinks. Given that, roughly 35%-45% of adolescents and young adults admit that they drink at least one energy drink per day. In view of, the market is not regulated; there has been a contentious marketing to adolescents with promises of psychoactive, performance-enhancing, and stimulant drug effects. In upwards of, hundreds of different brands are marketed today, these stimulant drinks typically