Energy Drinks Effects

The camera swivels around as a man suited up in a high-tech white suit and mask furtively sneaks through the forest. While holding a weapon, the man dive-rolls into the leaves chasing an unseen predator as the scene plays out. The actor sits down (the threat apparently neutralized), pulls off his helmet, shakes out his hair, and, naturally, grabs a Monster Energy Drink to refuel. This rapturing commercial promotes the consumption of energy drinks to today’s youth. What are these companies really promoting, though? Energy drinks contain unhealthy ingredients that cause detrimental health effects.
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Drinking an energy drink even long before laying down for the night can result in the consumer staying up all night tossing and turning instead of sleeping. In addition, energy drinks, like alcohol, fuel risk-taking behaviors by lowering a person’s inhibitions and fueling one’s feelings of invincibility. Energy-drink drinkers might take risks they would not take otherwise because of the feel-good vibes that consumers receive and the invincibility complex that results from these feelings ( Energy Drinks ). People might start to think that since they can stay up all night to finish a paper, they can jump off the side of a roof into a pool. The disturbing side effects do not end with these short-term detriments. Instead, energy drinks’ effects often compound into much graver troubles in the