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Energy drinks
Are energy drinks really bad for you? What are the health risks, if so?
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There are worse things out there, but they aren't really that great for you either. Most energy drinks have lots of empty calories, tons of sugar, and a lot of caffeine. Too much caffeine can cause you to become dizzy, have heart palpitations, and you can even become "addicted" to it.
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2491 is right, I've seen two dudes go down from kidney stones because of those things, one had to have part of his kidney removed. my buddy jesse was being an idiot and drinking nothing but red bull shots. it took four days to give him thumbnail sized kidney stones. thats bad juju.
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Energy drinks are not necessarily bad for you, but they are DEFINITELY not good for you. It's much like alcohol--not necessarily bad for you, but definitely not good for you.
Here's why:
The very basics of energy drink is using LARGE doses of caffeine and other legal stimulants like guarana and ginseng to boost your heart rate and blood pressure, which would make you more alert and INDIRECTLY boost your performance.
For athlete activities and exercising, if you use energy drinks, YOU NEED TO DRINK A LOT OF WATER, TOO. Energy drinks cause serious dehydration.
Now, since they are highly-caffeinated drinks, if you happen to have any type of underlying heart disease, you are into some trouble, as caffeine increases your blood pressure.
Also, because energy drinks are stimulants substances, if you use a stimulant substance, such as energy drink, with a DEPRESSANT substance, such as alcohol, you would find yourself either in a coffin buried in some graveyard (at worst), in the hospital (better? maybe?), or on a bed, totally drained out, throwing up, and so tired that you could barely move (a good result to end up with, considering how serious it could be).
So, if all right for you to use energy drinks if:
1) you have ABSOLUTELY NO heart disease.
2) you drink A LOT of water.
3) you do NOT use it with depressant substances.
4) you only drink AT MOST one bottle in a day.
5) you exercise or play sport for at least 3 times a week, 20 minutes each time (else, you'll get fat).
Hope this helps,
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First of all, they are really sugary, so they make you quite fat, also second of all, there are some health risks;
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