If you are one of the many millions who use these products on a daily basis, this should be a wake up call!
I read, recently, that drinking two cans of an energy drink a day can lead to an increase in blood pressure that can get dangerously high. According to research done at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, USA, doctors there found that 500 millilitres of caffeinated energy drinks a day can cause an increase in heart rate and a 10-point rise in systolic blood pressure. This is just one of the, now, many known side effects of these drinks.
Caffiene has lots of physiological effects, and is addictive. I once went to a study day for people who worked with addicts and the first slide showed the unpleasant symptoms reported by an addict when deprived of his fix, We were asked to guess the drug - and it was caffeine..
Well, I'm sure that reading some of the posts on here could raise one's blood pressure even more that 10 points 🙂
Found some new coffee beans in Waitrose today which I enjoyed immensley with no side effects whatsoever 🙂
And it's not tonly the caffeine in them, it's the sugars that cause problems - anything ending in -ose such as glocose, sucrose, etc which they spread out in lots of varieties soon add up to a hefty amount. This can leave you low on blood sugar within a couple of hours and needing to top-up - addictive or what???