Energy Drinks, Pros and Cons
October 24, 2007 by Scott Wharton
Filed under Men's Health
These days there are a million energy drinks on the market. Most are loaded with sugar and caffeine. Some have creatine additives, which aren’t exactly stable and some have amino acids such as carnatine and taurine. I drink them every now and then but I always go for the sugar free or “Low Carb” drinks. Some of them taste terrible and some taste pretty pleasant. My favorites? Sobe No Fear, Sobe Adrenaline, and Red Bull (all sugar free of course). Anyone with half a brain knows that too much caffeine is bad for you, especially when you don’t expend it. Here is a short excerpt from MSN. Click the link below for the full article.
“Caffeine, the main ingredient in energy drinks, isn’t directly toxic to the heart. But if you have almost any type of underlying heart disease, even a small amount of caffeine can stimulate the heart and cause problems. Caffeine can increase your blood pressure, and sometimes impair blood flow to your heart. It may trigger abnormal heart rhythms, which can be life-threatening in people at high risk.”
Energy drinks: Are they bad for my heart?
Image Source: Energy Drink Review
i dont agree with all this sh**!!!
like fer seriously i dont!
What don’t you agree with?
the energy drinks are not that bad but you cant fuck up and drink them all the fucking time you dumb ass motherfuckers!!!!!!
Thanks for your highly intellectual input, Davina. Perhaps you’re drinking too many and that’s why you sound so angry. Perhaps you can stop by more often and give us more of your super-duper advice!
dear diary…i drank an energy drink today and i feel so, so idk. but davina i really took your advice to heart and i just wanted u to know that people listen to u and u should speak ur mind more clearly…BULLSHIT!! I HATE UR STINKIN GUTS! U ARE SCUM BETWEEN MY TOES! (and fyi scum is milk residue, can u say disgusting?)
hey there i drink 14-17 energy drink a day and i dont notice any bad effects from them i have been drinking that many for about a year now and i have been wasting my money but nothing has happend to me so idk what everone yammering on about lol
i love engery drink and i dont care what anyone has to say about it so whatever.
I like energy drinks too. But you still have to drink them in moderation.
energy dirinks are the shit they dont really have side effects,,,these people protesting about them are fucking losers,,,
Hey, thanks for all of your input.
You know, I really appreciate people who swear every two words *note sarcasm*
Energy drinks are some of the worst things out there. Note economic chrisis.
they are horrible, and thats the end of that.
If you enjoy them, thtas your life, and i can’t really decide how you live it.
But just rememberall of the diseases that can come witht them, if you don’t drink them in moderation.
Maybe check out cbc.com and look for articles on energy drinks, and the side effects of them.
FYI energy drinks don’t cause these “diseases” that you are talking about. The idiots drinking them like they’re water obviously have poor eating habits, which added with these energy drinks cause these “diseases” supposedly caused by energy drinks to occur. i drink maybe 5 a week, i rarely get sick and when i do it’s usually caused by the shitty weather in my area. Energy drinks, when drank in moderation, can actually be very beneficial if you look at the ingredients. Low-carb and sugar free energy drinks are much better for you. look at the vitamins that are in these ones and then look at the negative ingredients, the benefits are there if you aren’t an idiot. Like anything else that you eat or drink, too much of anything can be bad for you, just be smart about them and you’ll get the benefits. USE YOUR DAMN BRAIN!!!
if your on here saying energy drinks are bad for your health well might as well just stop because what isnt. i hate you fucking pussy try to live healthy lives you only get the one so live it.i drink them all day every day and nothing else nothing happened yet. so stop being that loser who protest against everything.
Thanks Dean, because you raised a good point that you may want to look at. You only live one life so live it. Nice, that’s exactly what we are doing. We are attempting to live our lives without health problems and constant visits to the hospital or having to take medication all out lives. We’ll see who the pussy is when you have heart, nerve and kidney problems when you get older. Enjoy your life, however short you choose to live it.
Impressive. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen so many XXXXtreme bro-dudes with the IQ of a peanut all cohabiting in one place.
lol true true… that’s what the media and ignorance does to people -.-
who cares whether they are good or not lol? any pain or health problems that you suffered during life won’t matter after death anyway, its just an pointless emotion. i say drink them like crazy and have fun, don’t sleep, and die before your 30(your lifes fucked anyway even more so if you married).
energy drinks are bad but i love them,.,.
i have a heart disease and can no longer them so if it makes any of u jack asses feel worse i hope it does because they have just as many side effects as smking which i think u people did before u wrote these
Joey just won the grammar of the year award. Enjoy your heart disease. Maybe it’s a sign from God that you’re too goddamned dumb to exist.
“can no longer them”
“I accidentally a coca cola bottle.”
wel..let’s see ..seems some of u don’t understand the effects of energy drinks…they stimulate the body..something unnatural to us will lead eventually to problems.. it’s not like u notice them immediately ..they can manifest over time ..u may feel the effects at 40 or 50 …when ur heart is weak from pumping at such a high rate or your liver can’t take anymore toxins. We don’t have the same immune system, body structure and metabolism so of course some may not experience problems like others. Effects can range from only hyperactivity to having an aneurysm. You never know how your body will react in the long run so why risk? why drinking in excess? I never drank more than one in one day. One has the desired effect anyways ..rest is willpower
quit arguing you ignorant pricks.
go do something useful with your time besides argue with someone you’ll never meet face to face
taurine IS NOT an amino acid.
it is missing a carboxyl group. making it not an amino acid.
just putting that out there
I’m not a chemist, I just go off of what I read. Everything I have read up until now has said that Taurine is an amino acid. I’m not saying you’re wrong…I’m just saying.
Taurine is a non-essential amino acid which can be derived from your diet or synthesized from the amino acid cysteine, if there is enough cysteine & pyridoxal-5-phosphate(co-enzyme B6.) Taurine is highly concentrated in animal & fish protein.
You know, Scott. You may think those energy drinks you enjoy, the sugar free ones, those are insanely bad. I’m not gonna lie,
Oops, I pressed submit to early.
I’m not gonna lie. I love energy drinks. They’re my water pretty much. But as you said, you go by what you read. All that is put out there is the negative. Because adults don’t want their kids drinking this stuff because of a few bad things. But hey, doctors said you shouldn’t eat eggs for a period of time because they’re too high in cholesterol. Now you’ve got a bunch of kids with poor eye sight because they don’t have whatever is so special in eggs that helps our eyes.
The only negative thing about energy drinks is they create hyper tension. And a small bit of it. And only increase your risk of heart disease and health problems… if you already have them.
Now granted, drinking them in moderation, true. There’s no need to really drink them as much as that one kid said, 14-17 a day. That’s 30 Dollars a day. Minimum. But that’s aside the point. You may have heard of people going to the hospital because of them? Well, I can say I’m one of them. I’ve been twice. First time was a small problem. It was my first time having the Strongest [legal] energy drink. - A black pearl. A warning label that would be two paragraphs at standard font, I was being ‘tough’ and drank four in less than ten minutes. Passed out fifteen minutes later. Now. Second time, doctor said I should have been dead. But then again, that’s not my point. Drink in moderation because energy drinks can send you to the hospital? Sure. Maybe, if you have a disorder that makes me take in more Vitamin B than the average human takes in. Thus nearly killing me with an OD on Vitamin B. This disorder is often found in children with ADD and/or ADHD.
Oh, and back to my statement about you, Scott, and your sugar free energy drinks. Stop drinking them. With that you’re more likely to get heart problems with those than drinking the non-sugar free ones.
I hope this helps any of you looking for answers.
I wrote this almost a year and a half ago. Then I was drinking them a few times a week. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had one. These days it’s black coffee in the mornings only.
That’s not me in the photo, either.
So..everyone who is saying energy drinks AREN’T bad for you, truly are dumb. Do you realize how much shit is in those things? Not to mention that the amount of sugar in them,can cause heart problems and lead to stroke and heart disease. I guess you guys are too immature and caught up in the media around you, to realize what the hell these things are doing to you. Just because you don’t feel “side affects” it doesn’t mean it’s not doing anything to your body.
And on another note! Just because people are posting on here about the bad affects, it does not mean that we are all health freakks! It’s time people realized that everything that is advertised and sold to consumers, is not always good for our bodies, but if you guys want to watch your body widdle away , because you want to be stubborn, then so be it !
Have fun with that ..