Energy drinks are
beverages that contain some form of vitamins and other chemicals which boosts
your energy for very short span but can be dangerous due to the ingredients from which they are made
of in comparison of those typical drinks that we all take. These energy drinks
have lots of sugar and caffeine. The real problem is that Ingredients (I can say
that Caffeine is the main active ingredient) in energy drinks used in these
energy drinks can affect your heartbeat and blood pressure and this can lead to
death.
Caffeine
poisoning is not uncommon in the U.S. A study in the journal Pediatrics showed that anywhere
from 30 percent to 50 percent of young adults and teens drink energy drinks.
Nearly half of the 5448 reported caffeine overdoses in 2007 were in people
younger than 19. Also TODAY reported that cases of
caffeine poisoning have increased over the
last few years, from 1,128 in 2005 to 13,114 in 2009.
This
is because of the plenty of caffeine in energy drink. It is true that energy
drinks have excessive amount of caffeine than soft drink , coffee or tea. For
example, Two Monster energy drinks has about the same amount of
caffeine as that found in 14 cans of Coca Cola and this is almost
five times the recommended caffeine limit per day suggested by the Academy of
Pediatrics.
It is not a difficult thing to buy and
drink energy drinks. There are no age requirements for buying it. There are
many kinds of energy drinks . They are being
sold in the market as other drinks and it is easy to buy it from anywhere. Buying
energy drinks and drinking does not seem like a big problem in our lives. Whether
energy drinks are helpful or harmful has always been a topic of controversy. It
has been a big issue not only in New Zealand, also in the world. In some ways,
energy drinks are addicting, since they provide us with a power supply
throughout the day (for very short moment). On the down side, however, many
doctors and scientific experts have proven and warned that energy drinks are
very harmful if consumed over an extended period of time. Well, I will definitely
say that energy drinks are really unnecessary for us. In this article, I am
going to let you know how dangerous energy drinks are and analyze why they are
harmful. I will suggest my ideas and arguments on energy drinks and describe
facts and reasons why we need to avoid it.
