Heart disease? Skip the energy drinks
March 27, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
If you have heart disease or high blood pressure, you may want to avoid drinking the so-called energy drinks that have become so popular. The energy drinks aren’t the same thing as sports drinks, like Gatorade though. These are the ones that promise “to give you wings” or keep you awake all night.
A study that was published online on Wednesday in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy , has found that healthy adults who drank two cans a day of a popular energy drink had an increase in both blood pressure and heart rate. The researchers did point out though, …read more




