Every one of
us from time to time is going through serious physical
and mental efforts.
In such condition it's
practically impossible to bring back alertness and
freshness with a cup of coffee or a glass of juice.
Because of that, Energy drinks like
Red Bull become more and more trendy and
popular.
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drinks is almost indistinguishable from the
ordinary soda, but the composition of ingredients varies
from one brand to another. They
contain all kinds of vitamins,
caffeine, and many other
components that imitate the feeling of freshness and
"refill" a person with vital energy to help in
overcoming fatigue. Such components are Taurine or
Carnitin. Those chemicals improve the metabolism and
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concentration and cause significant
withdrawal of tiredness symptoms.
The use of
Energy drinks becomes very popular among young people
especially with alcohol drinks: As they say "With them
it's much easier to drink and dance during the whole
night in discotheques".
The First Energy drinks
appeared in China. They arrived to Europe during the
80's. The million dollar question is: How safe is
this magic poison in cans?
One of the main
components of it is Caffeine. It causes to
temporal alertness but does not enrich the body with
energy. By that we push our body to its limits and even
beyond. The content of the synthetic caffeine in
non-alcoholic Energy drinks is up to 320 mg / l vs. the
recommended upper tolerable levels of consumption of 150
mg per day.
But that's not all. As was found,
"Red Bull" - the
most popular and fashionable Energy drink, is not as
harmless as it seems to be, and it could be even deadly
to humans. The production and sale of the drink is
already banned in Australia and New Zealand. In France,
Denmark and Norway energy drinks are prohibited for sale
in food stores and are allowed to be sold only in
pharmacies because they are considered as no other than
medicine.
Another interesting fact: Red Bull
actually became popular as a cocktail with vodka. Now It
is Especially not recommended to use Energy drinks in
combination with alcohol or caffeine.
There are
known cases of death of youngsters that drank very large
amounts of "Energy" drinks after a workout at the gym,
in combination with or even without an
alcohol.
One of them is a tragic case of a young
18- year-old basketball player that died right after the
match. He drank 3 cans of non alcoholic Energy drinks
before the match.
The federal health services warned
about the usage of Energy drinks because of the negative
impact they might have and because of the fact that
currently there is not enough information about the
safety of Energy formula. The use of Energy drinks in
combination with alcohol may cause major changes in the
human psyche and in the physiologic state of the
body.
So when and in what quantities of Energy
drinks can we have?
Drinking 2-3 cans a day
can cause not only increasing of the nervous anxiety or
insomnia, but also fatal arrhythmia, a sharp increase in
blood sugar and raising blood pressure.
Even the
manufacturers recommend drinking of no more than 2 cans
a day, but to person suffering from high blood pressure,
it can easily cause to fatal hypertonic crisis. It is
not recommended to allow drinking of Energy drinks to
children, pregnant women and persons suffering from
cardiovascular diseases.
Many countries demand a
comprehensive exam of Energy drinks and their
components. To ensure safe usage, the amount recommended
is no more than 2 cans per day, use of no more than one
Energy component in one single Energy drink and prohibit
sale of soft drinks containing Energy compounds in
school cafeterias.
In general, it would be
much safer to avoid drinking of Energy drinks as coffee
or juice, before and after serious physical effort or
sports as body reaction can be unpredictable.
To
find out more about the efficacy of energy drinks,
energy pills and
coffee on the human body,
alertness and their effect on health and tiredness read
on www.Health-Care.adw-in.com.
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