Final Essay

Red Bull is an increasing popular energy drink mostly among young adults; older people too. It’s said to give people insane amounts of energy to react faster and increase speed and ability to work out more intently. People even are so dependant on energy drinks that some don’t even have enough energy to get out of bed in the morning or make it through the day without drinking an energy drink. It may be possible Red Bull can provide people with extra energy to work out harder or make it through the day. Bottom line is, they are unhealthy and people are dying from drinking Red Bull, spending hundreds of dollars for no reason, taken in unnecessary calories and causing unpredicted health concerns.
Studies have been held to determine the effects of Sugar-Free Red Bull energy drinks with a high-intensity run time to exhaustion in young adults (Darren Condon, 2009). They found Sugar- Free Red Bull did not affect the high-intensity run time to exhaustion in young adults. People will drink a Red Bull before hitting the gym or doing a high intensity sport, thinking it will improve their energy in order to achieve the results they desire (Darren Condon, 2009). Though like the study above, there are others that prove Red Bull has no real effect on the bodies’ intensity level. Also some studies written on the energy Red Bull does give people, according to Anitei, a science editor, who wrote “Does Red Bull give you wings?” said the sugar in Red Bull does give people energy, only for a short amount of time, then the body crashes and is worst off than it was before. In one can, Red Bull carries the same amount of sugar that the body needs in a day (Stefan Anitei, 2007).
People are actually dying from drinking Red Bull according to the Swedish National Food Administration, who is leading this investigation, they are telling people not to drink Red Bull mixed with alcohol, or after a heavy exercise. Three healthy young adults have died after drinking a Red Bull shortly before their deaths. Two of the victims died after mixing Red Bull with vodka. They were dancing on the dance floor in a local club then just hit the ground; hearts stopped beating, and then became lifeless. The third victim died after drinking multiple cans of the energy drink, then following a heavy work out at the gym. Seems as if there is a pattern to these deaths, the amount of sugar and caffeine in only one can of these drinks are enough to make your heart race; then combined with a stressful work out, lifting weights or dancing will over work your heart and body.
Even without the one can of Red Bull a day, the average American consumes an astounding 2-3 pounds of sugar each week. This is not surprising considering that people take in table sugar, corn sugar, and high- fructose corn syrup; they are all being processed into so many foods, bread, breakfast cereal, mayonnaise, peanut butter, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, and many of the microwaveable meals (Gene, 2001). Makes people think what’s one can going to do, compared to the everyday sugar taken in everyday? Well not only does sugar slow down the immune system, causes diabetes and brings heart disease, it’s even a main cause contributed to a serious problem Americans have called obesity (Gene , 2001)
Sugar and caffeine in energy drinks can also lead to other health compilations such as, anxiety and insomnia (Healing Daily, 2007). When it comes to anxiety and insomnia caffeine has a different affect on everyone. Some people feel completely normal after drinking caffeine at night and others can stay up all night because their nervous system is too stimulated to allow deep, restful and prolonged sleep (Healing Daily, 2007). People who already have problems with anxiety, then drink a lot of caffeine heightens the intensity of the mental activity in the brain can produce unpleasant effects. Red Bull makes people become very jittery and very irritable. When the body feels jittery, hands begin to shake, palpitations and wobbliness of the legs. Over time caffeine can become highly addictive because it make the body believe it has so much energy (Healing Daily, 2007). Then once the false energy is gone, the body and brain is more exhausted than it was in the first place.
Overall, Red Bull is a pointless energy drink that cost too much money just to cause the body to over work itself. With people dying after drinking these energy drinks, having heart conditions, sleeping problems, obesity problems, anxiety and many other problems that have been being discussed, why would anyone want to subject themselves to ruin their body and in some cases life’s just to drink a can of Red Bull? They are doing more bad than good, and the problems they are causing need to come the attention of people.

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I did not know that the UK had this type of newest technology. They have generators that are half way covered in water, that create energy. It sames as if they are not advanced then the U.S., only one of the chain generators is 225 million dollars.

"Where I lived, and What I lived for"

"Where I lived, and what I Lived For" by Henry David Thoreau. This essay was a very good essay. Thoreau believes that people live to much in a hurry, "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life". We do live in a hurry all everyday. I realize that II wake up, get ready, go to work, go to the gym, go home, myspace or facebook, do homework, watch television, then go to sleep. Thoreau talks about living in the woods. I wonder if I could ever leave all the new technology and go back to living how people used to. The essay was a little hard to understand, though I think I can understand his point. We are ruining our world that once used to be beautiful and turning our everyday life's into a waste.

Label

In this chart it shows what is in Red Bull and how much each drink really carry's it also shows what Red bull is suppose to do for your body. As in, "Improves performance especially during times of increased stress or strain, increases endurance, increases concentration and improves reaction speed, stimulates the metabolism. Is that why people drink this drinks instead of just eating healthy?

Drinking + Driving.....

People in bars or even that are just drinking alcohol at all are starting to become very into drinking energy drinks and alcohol at the same time and have intentions of driving a motor vehicle. An alcohol feild study was conducted from 802 randonly selected people and interviewed and took survey data. It revealed that people who consumed energy drinks and alcohol were at a 3-fold increased risk of leaving the bars highly intoxicated. This is crazy to think about, people do shots with energy drinks and then feel like that might be ok to drive. They are not only drunk, but now consumed with all the feelings that the energy drink has put into their body.


Thombs, Dennis L., et al. "Event-level analyses of energy drink consumption and alcohol intoxication in bar patrons." Addictive Behaviors 35.4 (2010): 325-330. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Apr. 2010.

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Red bull COLA? aka COKE?

The new red bull cola came out about a year ago and now officials in Germany worry
that they have found the answer and have found small traces if cocaine in these drinks
they now have prohibited the sale of the "red bull cola" in six states across the country. According to the Health Institute in the state of North Rhine Westphalia
they examined Red Bull Cola and did find traces of coke in it, but not enough to hurt
people who drank it. You would have to drink 12,000 L of Red Bull cola to get a
negative effect from it. To me this is in outrage, unlike the coke scare inside the first cola that was many of years ago. Now we are in 2010 and things like this are still possible to happen in the world? that is just crazy.

Jean Friedman rudovsky Initials. (2009, May 25). Red bull's new kick from cocaine . Time in partnership with CNN, Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1900849,00.html

High blood pressure?

Researchers found that drinking two cans of red bull everyday can increase your chances of having high blood pressure and heart rate in 15 healthy adults with the average age of 26. While the increases didn’t reach dangerous levels in the healthy volunteers, the increases in blood pressure and heart rate could prove to be clinically significant in patients with heart disease or in those who consume energy drinks often. according to study leader James Kalus. Within four hours of consuming the energy drinks, the participants maximum systolic blood pressure shot up by as much as 9.6 percent, and diastolic blood pressure increased by as much as 7.8 percent. Heart rate also went up by as much 11 percent. It is crazy to think that just drinking something as simple as a energy drink like red bull could do this much stuff to your body. Just reading these articles really makes to think about what I put into my body.


FOX NEWS , Initials. (2007, November 07). Study: energy drinkd risky for people with heart problems high blood pressure. Retrieved from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,309119,00.html