Energy Drinks Persuasive Speech

Energy drinks, they are good right. Wrong, they are bad for you; it could be considered just as dangerous to your health as tobacco, drugs, or alcohol. Sure it hasn’t killed as many people but someday it will get there. Especially if there are no laws made about it. It is truly harming kids because their bodies are not developed enough yet and it’s really affecting their health. Monsters, there was a boy who had drank three of them quickly. Who know why but he did, well that boy is now dead. Most kids don’t realize what these things can do to them and neither do their parents. If parents knew about all the harmful effects then all of these companies would have been closed many years ago. But because of the kids there are hundreds of companies making energy drinks and it has become very profitable for them. Parents used to not let the their kids drink Mountain Dew, but they aren’t even a quarter as bad as these energy drinks. Energy drinks have many lie on their labels that make them look not as bad. In reality they are packed with …show more content…
There are plenty of them out there like 5 Hour Energy, DynaPep, and ALRI Hypershot. They are all two ounce bottles and contain ridiculous amounts of caffeine. Like DynaPep, it contains 700 mg of caffeine, that’s enough to kill a young teen. If they are allowed to mask the caffeine in their drinks and allowed to continue to sell them to kids, then there is going to be a huge problem. The companies are going to keep putting more and more caffeine in their drinks. It is pretty much the only reason why they are bad for people to drink. There are some good things about it like a slight boost in athletic performance. As well as mental alertness in sleep deprived people and it helps decrease the risk of Parkinson’s disease. The caffeine in it causes heart palpitations, insomnia, and jitteriness. In the worst cases it cause heart attacks, cardiac disease, and sharp increases in blood