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Saturday, April 16, 2011

How do Energy Drink Affects Your Body?


How do energy drink affects your body? Energy drinks is a kind of soft drinks that contain caffeine and other stimulant substances such as ephedrine, guarana, and ginseng. This drink does not contain more calories than soft drinks, but is believed to increase stamina for those who drink it.

The content of energy drinks consists of an artificial sweetener, flavor enhancer, dye, phosphoric acid, caffeine and some minerals. Beside that, energy drinks also features the amino acid taurine and carnitine that are needed for the body in the process of metabolism. It also contains bee pollen, royal jelly and spirullina algae or chlorella.

Vitamins that are contained in energy drinks such as B-complex, vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, biotin, and ginseng. Vitamin B-complex useful in the formation of red blood cells / erythrocytes. Vitamin B1 for nerve nutrition, B2 to prevent chapped lips, vitamin B3, vitamin B5 panthotenic acid is good for hair growth while niacinamide vitamin B6 is needed in pregnant women who experience vomiting or morning sickness.

Caffeine increases the body's metabolic rate and stimulate neurotransmitters that a person becomes not sleepy, not tired, and to make someone easy to think clearly. That's why after every drink energy drinks, the body feels more comfortable and tiredness disappear. But behind that complete contents, if we drink energy drinks every day, will be bad for health. What is it?

Benefits or effects of energy drinks is only temporary. In one bottle of energy drink volume of 150 ml, contains 50 milligrams of caffeine. In accordance with the limit of safe consumption of caffeine per day is 150 milligrams. When exceeding the threshold above, the body that excess of caffeine will lead to insomnia, body shaking, spasms, heart palpitations and excessive stomach acid and trigger ulcer or gastritis.

Because of that the people with heart disease, hypertension, stomach ulcers and diabetes should not drink energy drinks. While in healthy people, is fine. Work liver became much more severe in the presence of stimulant ingredients in energy drinks. Direct toxicity will occur within hours and be fatal with death. While the indirect effects of toxicity caused by accumulation of long-term liver damage is very widespread are slowly but surely.

Work is also increasingly severe kidney in the presence of substances sweeteners, preservatives and dyes in energy drinks. Kidney heavy work to filter toxic materials will result in tired kidneys, which resulted in damage primarily in the kidney tubules and glomeruli and ended with chronic renal failure. Patients with chronic renal failure there is no other way but to undergo dialysis or hemodialysis (HD). Even if the HD is less successful, patients must undergo a kidney transplant which was exorbitant cost.

In addition to chronic renal failure, calories are so high in energy drinks will trigger the occurrence of metabolic syndrome or obesity, the problem of excess weight, especially in children and also in adults. So, be careful to consume beverages in bottles called energy drinks. A bottle in a week, may still be safe. Do not be a habit every day, which will result in serious and fatal. Eliminate habits that wants all-round instant.

When tired just direct straight drinking energy drinks to energy recovered instantly, one bad habits and no patience to train us all. Actually tiredness will go away by itself, so we just need to rest. No need a versatile instant, try to be patient in all things, thus our organs would be saved from fatal damage. Hopefully a lesson for all of us who care about the health of the body. 


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