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You Will Hate Energy Drinks after Learning Your Body’s Reaction to Them Often, we consume an energy drink when we need a boost of energy in the afternoon, or when learning before a crucial exam. However, we must be aware of the dangers that energy drinks pose to our bodies. These drinks can cause a heart attack or a stroke. The effects of energy drinks Cardiovascular diseases and strokes after the consumption of energy drinks are common because these drinks make the blood sticky. The blood…

Bai was founded in 2009 by Ben Weiss on the vision of creating a beverage made from pure ingredients packed with antioxidants. Headquartered in Hamilton, NJ, Bai stands for botanical antioxidant infusion also meaning “pure” in mandarin. What distinguishes Bai beverages from others in the market is the company’s commitment to producing products that are made from 100 percent natural ingredients with no preservatives or chemicals and is rich in antioxidants. The source of Bai’s antioxidants…

enterprises have tried to hide these consequences by blaming the entire weight of these health concerns like obesity and high blood pressure on fat filled foods. There is of course truth in fat heavy diets being a unhealthy decision but it doesn’t make soft drinks any more healthy. Due to the acknowledgement of raising health apprehension several regions have been trying to make the utilization of soda less appealing. As of recently “a handful of cities, including Philadelphia and Berkeley,…

Kiara Ventura 18 April 2016 Professor Julia Robinson: Mondays and Thursdays 3:30pm - 4:45pm Paper 2: Felix Gonzalez-Torres In 1917, Marcel Duchamp introduced the idea of the readymade by picking the perfect urinal while Andy Warhol followed him by mass producing Brillo boxes in 1964. Both artists turned the path of art world and updated the way people once viewed art. With a heavy influence on the future of art, it is no surprise that artists after them built a foundation off of their ideas.…

Soda banning is one of the most debatable and controversial topics in the country. One of the questions is should soda be banned or limited? If we banned it, we will save people from the ramifications of their health. If we limited it, we are taking away a citizen's right to drink whatever they want whenever they please. The biggest question is our freedom worth millions of people of dying because of something that could have been prevented early on? Soda ban is the best way to…

“Of all the foods consumed today, refined sugar is considered to be one of the most harmful”, says macrobiotics.com. Most people are somewhat aware of how much soda they drink or how many calories they intake, but they have never thought about much sugar they eat. The average American eats approximately 130 pounds of sugar per year. While some don’t even realize that eating too much sugar is something that they daily partake in, it is a terrible habit that needs to be broken! It isn’t actually…

7 Amazing Things That Happen To Your Body When You Give Up Soda When people drink soda on a regular basis it effects their body and makes them crave sweets more and more. Drinking sodas effects your sense of satiety making your body want more sugar than you actually need. The artificial sweeteners that are in soda are anywhere from 400-8000 times sweeter than sugar. When you drink all of the artificial sweeteners in tricks your stomach into making you want more food than you actually need.…

Let’s say you're heading to the theater and you buy your ticket. You head over to the concession stand for your popcorn and soda. In the 1990s, a regular-sized soda weighed in at 6.5 fluid ounces and a small-sized popcorn was a reasonable treat. That’s about 355 calories. The same movie food items today has more than tripled in its size. These days, a movie-theater-sized tub of popcorn and a regular sized soda have almost 880 calories, that not including extra snack and add-ons. Approximately…

Sugary Drink Ban Imagine sipping on an XL slurpie that’s from your favorite store and you drink everyday, but one day you see that now the drink you love is no longer available and gone forever! Next, I think the ban on sugary drinks is wrong because you can’t just blame only sugary drinks for causing obesity there is other factors too, and they would also be infringing on our rights. It doesn’t say anywhere in the constitution that you can only have a certain amount of sugary drinks…

Sugary drinks can affect everyone in the world. Specifically in the United States, the government is trying to implement a tax on sugary drinks. Although the tax would be unnecessary and unethical, if there is going to be an unnecessary tax on sugary drinks then the revenue from the taxation should be used for rehabilitation and education to stop and prevent obesity and diabetes. Taxation would only be decent if the money was budgeted for the good and overall well being of people who are obese…