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I receive an a lot of questions about effects of energy drinks that have hit the market over the prior 2 years. So a few questions arise : Are there any dangers of energy drinks? Do they turbo-charge your energy? Is there a cocaine energy drink? Do they have some sort of fascinating energy formula? Will they help you lose weight? First off, let’s have a look at what the bulk of these energy drinks are typically made of. Just about each one of them are simply carbonated water heaped high with gut-fattening high fructose corn syrup, caffeine, the amino acid taurine, and some random B-vitamins chucked in for show to deceive you into assuming there’s something healthy about these mixtures.

So what about a cocaine energy drink? Red Bull Cola is what folks are talking about. Even though it is formed from the coca plant it doesn’t contain cocaine, or at least not high levels of the drug.

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Let’s look at high fructose corn syrup.

Well, here we have got empty calories that will turn into belly fat, and that are fundamentally much worse for you than plain old refined sugar. OK, so you are pronouncing that they have low-sugar or sugar-free varieties as a replacement for the HFCS-laden energy drinks.  But now you have the problem of the threatening chemicals in the man made sweeteners. Another difficulty with man made sweeteners is that there are some researchers that believe man made sweetener use leads people to incidentally consume more calories and gain more weight in the long term. I won’t go into the details on that because that would fill up a total post on its own.

Just trust me that artificial sweeteners and man made chemicals in food customarily, are all bad news for your body. What about the caffeine? Well, firstly, caffeine in itself does not provide ‘energy’. Be aware of though , if you’re a regular coffee drinker, you are likely dependant to caffeine and doubtless would not receive too much benefit from the caffeine in an energy drink any way. And the bulk of those B-vitamins are simply coming right out into the toilet in your pee.

Vitamins are best got naturally from real food sources, not artificially added to some carbonated drink. Your body just doesn’t use fake sources of vitamins as readily as natural sources from real food.