A doubt had arisen at all about the fact that energy drinks were anything but healthy. But today comes the confirmation: energy drinks, so fashionable among teenagers all over the world (or almost), are dangerous not only for people with high blood pressure or blood sugar, even for healthy young people, who lead a normal life.
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On the fact that the energy drinks they were anything but healthy, a doubt had arisen at all. But today comes the confirmation: energy drinks, so fashionable among teenagers all over the world (or almost), are dangerous not only for people with high blood pressure or blood sugar, even for healthy young people, who lead a normal life.
To put it in black and white is there "Pediatrics" magazine, which released a study in which the consumption habits of these drinks and the effects on the health of the youngest.
According to the results provided study, between the 30 and 50% of adolescents and young adults consume these drinks, which they almost always contain excessive doses of caffeine.
The high concentration of this exciting substance causes - due to the excessive quantity - undesirable effects, such as heart palpitations, epileptic fits, heart attacks and also unexpected death. According to the Energy Drink study, of the 5.448 cases of caffeine overdose recorded in the United States in 2007, 46% involved young people under the age of 19.
"We discourage the use of these drinks by children and adolescents - he said Stephen Lipshultz, author of the study - more restrictive laws on caffeine content and more accurate toxicological surveillance should also be put in place ".
Meanwhile, the Councilor for Health of the Municipality of Milan, Gianpaolo Landi of Chiavenna, said he wanted to commission the specialists of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, one study and an awareness campaign on energy drinks:
"It is important to draw attention to the consequences of excessive consumption of these drinks which, while they are not harmful in themselves, can have a negative role in a teenager's diet in a certain quantity."
In short, to cheer yourself up not good coffee is better or a vitamin-rich smoothie?
Go to the study published in Pediatrics
