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The dangers of energy drinks and the healthiest caffeine kicks to try instead
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Around 1.7 million people in the UK consume energy drinks two or three times a week. Every week a new one pops onto supermarket shelves in a new flavour with claims that they’re enriched with vitamins and minerals. Most worrying is that these drinks that are labelled ‘healthy’ often contain whopping amounts of caffeine (the latest by Tenzing has 200mg of caffeine and is the strongest on the market) never mind artificial sweeteners and a cocktail of chemicals. Unsurprisingly, the NHS have expressed their concern that these drinks that promise energy without calories, are also fuelling record cases of anorexia and eating disorders .

Eva Humphries, a registered nutritionist, shares their concern. “I spend the majority of my time steering people away from energy drinks in all their forms,” she says. “With high doses of caffeine and either artificial sweeteners or large amounts of sugar alongside a cocktail of stimulants such as guarana, L-carnitine and taurine. They have a really high cost to the body.” The rise in caffeine concentration

While once it was the likes of Monster and Red Bull which has 32mg caffeine per 100ml, a new raft of drinks have steadily ramped up the caffeine. Prime Energy packs in 42mg of caffeine per 100ml. All of these however are dwarfed by Super Natural Energy which has a caffeine concentration of 60mg per 100ml.

Britain’s caffeine addiction isn’t waning either. According to the British Coffee Association, British consumers drink approximately 98 million cups of coffee per day. “I’d say stress is probably the biggest reason we turn to caffeine,” says Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi, a lifestyle and physical lead for the Royal College of GPs. “Caffeine works by blocking the release of a chemical called adenosine which is normally produced throughout the day as a signal for when we’re tired and fatigued, and so it makes us more alert.” What it means for our health

Although caffeine clearly helps when your brain needs a kickstart, excessive amounts of caffeine can actually inhibit our ability to function.

Al-Zubaidi says that one of the major issues with having too much caffeine […]

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