Energy Drinks How It Impacts Your Health?

Adekunle Oludele
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Jul 13, 2022

Introduction

Energy drinks started becoming famous in early 1990s and now, we have thousands of brands and products which claims to give you instant energy from their ingredients and making changes in consumer’s life. There are some other associated products such as bites, snacks and energy shots which are increasingly becoming popular these days.

Typically, school and college students are more attracted towards energy drinks and consuming them in high amount and companies are also influencing them with different offers. Companies are offering their energy drink for free or at low cost outside the schools, colleges, gym, health centers, sports event, universities and more. Energy drinks are offered to young children with different flavors which are harmful and sometime prone to death.

Understanding Energy Drinks

Energy drinks are different from soft drinks or coffee or tea. Soft drinks don’t contain caffeine but sometimes caffeine can be harmful for the consumers as caffeine directly affect on your heart. On the other hand, sports drinks contain vitamins, carbs and sugars. These elements can be helpful for your intense sporting event or workout training.

Energy drinks contains caffeine and vitamins as their main ingredients and due to these low cost energy drinks and low amount caffeine, these are increasingly becoming popular and making changes in youth life. But there are some other several added stimulants are in energy drinks which are as follows:

Taurine- This supplement is marketed as endurance booster and memory booster.
Ginseng- This herb can reduce stress, build muscles and boost endurance.
Guarana- This herb contains caffeine and promoted as weight loss ingredients. It meant to prevent tiredness and boost mental speed.
Bitter Orange- This herb is used as weight loss ingredients.
Gingko- This herb improves tiredness and increases your focus.
St. John’s Wort- This herb improves mood and cut down your stress level.
L-Carnitine L-tartrate- this supplement claims to break down fat, increase speed, memory and energy.
Yerba Mate- Mate Mate energy drink contains yerba mate herbs that claims to improve mood and prevent tiredness.

The Problem with the Energy Drink

The main issue with the energy drink is that FDA has lack of control over it and every energy drink and its ingredients are not tested perfectly which is not good for public health. Also, the labels of the products also does not come under the laws which means that companies can play with the information of the caffeine and other ingredients information. Advertising or marketing campaign from the company can be influential and not be beneficial for the participants as an end results. Energy drinks claims to improve mood, performance, strength to attract people to consume them. Hence energy products look safe and trendy.

In a soft drink, caffeine 30 mg of caffeine is present, coffee contains 100 mg of caffeine where as energy drink can contains about 100-250 mg of caffeine which is quite alarming.

Healths experts say that there are dangers of drinking energy drinks in the long and can be prone to some diseases which are visible in the society are mentioned below:

Palpitations or chest pain
Inability to fall asleep
Lack of dizziness and focus
Weight gain
Type II diabetes
Diarrhea, headache or stomach ulcers
Dental problems

What can you do about it?

The FDA should make proper guidelines and laws about the labels and should give authentic information about the energy drink to the public. The energy drink should be tested regularly to know the effects. Young people should drink it responsibility and should not take more than recommended limits of can per day to avoid diseases and health issues.

People should look at the better health alternative and should drink them to eliminate the energy drink or lower its consumption among people. In social events, energy drinks should be limited to one instead of keep drinking again and again which has severe health impact.

Another big issue is to mix the energy drink with alcohol and using it as a cocktail to enjoy with friends. But it has severe impact on your health and reduces your ability to make right decision. Also, mixing the energy drinks to alcohol is also illegal.

Conclusion

You would surely like to talk your doctor if any of your family members is having health issues after consuming energy drinks. First thing is to eliminate the energy drink from his or her diet. Secondly, they needed to be give treatment for their health issues. Nothing is bad if used in limited amount and instructed manner. You can enjoy energy drink if taken in limited amount.

Comments (1)

Shyroon

Sep 15, 2023

Informative blog post! Thanks for spreading awareness of how they can harm our health and have many side effects like the inability to fall asleep. I have read a blog related to this. You can check it out https://yourmentalhealthpal.com/psychological-effects-of-energy-drinks/