Energy Drinks Promise Edge Analysis

I believe that the author of “Energy Drinks Promise Edge, but Experts Say Proof IS Scant” supports his claim that energy drinks do not provide an extra boost. I think that there is more hype about these drinks than there actually is boost in them and that special ingredients and extra caffeine makes no difference. The author supports his claim because he mentions how energy drinks have the same effects as any other energy substance, B vitamins do not provide any boost, and Taurine has not been proven with scientific evidence to have any beneficial effect.

My first reason why I believe that the author of this article supports his claim is because of the way he explains how other energy substances have the same effects as the energy drinks. …show more content…
One reason I think that B vitamins do not give you an extra boost is how all the excess of the vitamin in your body gets expelled no matter how much of it you take in. According to the author “a two-ounce bottle of 5-Hour Energy contains 500 micrograms of Vitamin B12, or 8,333 percent of the recommended daily allowance, and 20 times the recommended intake of Vitamin B6. ‘The body is going to use what it needs and it is going to excrete what it does not absorb’, said Ms.Lutz.” This means that the extra amount of Vitamin B in these energy drinks will not help boost any energy, it will just be excreted out. Another detail is how you can get the recommended amount of Vitamin B from many kinds of foods. According to the article “B-group vitamins serve many functions, such as in the digestion of food, but several experts said that healthy people get adequate amounts of them from food and that huge dosages do not provide benefits.” This means that you can get just the right amount of Vitamin B from foods and not energy drinks so energy drinks do not have an extra edge or benefit in that respect. Finally, another detail is how there is no extra boost from the B vitamins. In the article the author states that “‘They are not going to increase energy levels,’ said Paul R. Thomas, a scientific adviser with the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary supplements.” This means that there is no benefit energywise for this much of Vitamin B of any Vitamin B to be in an energy

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