ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The increasingly popular high-caffeine beverages called energy drinks may do more than give people a jolt of energy — they may also boost heart rates and blood pressure levels, researchers said on Tuesday.
The results of a small study prompted the researchers to advise people who have high blood pressure or heart disease to avoid energy drinks because they could impact their blood pressure or change the effectiveness of their medications.
The drinks generally have high levels of caffeine and taurine, an amino acid found in protein-rich foods like meat and fish that can affect heart function and blood pressure, the researchers said.
“We saw increases in both blood pressure and heart rate in healthy volunteers who were just sitting in a chair watching movies. They weren’t exercising. They were in a resting state,” James Kalus of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, who led the study, said in an interview.
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Ya think? We need a “study” for this conclusion?
And people wonder why the US and A! is so fucked?
High caffeine drinks MAY boost heart rates? I thought it was already a known fact that caffeine has that effect on people.
This morning Matt Lauer, who is broadcasting from above the arctic circle, said icebergs “appear to be melting.” Is he not sure what melting ice looks like?
Paul Krugman said, “News reports on Rudy Giuliani’s fake facts describe his position as ‘in dispute,’ when it’s actually just false, and describe the truth as something ‘Democrats say’ rather than as, simply, the truth.”
Am I missing something? Is everyone too chickenshit to traffic in facts? Or is it less a lack of spine than a purposeful attempt to paint “the truth” as a moving target, as subjective based on your point of view? I guess if people are convinced that there is no objective truth, they stop trying to find it.
I try to minimize my caffeine intake, but it’s recently dawned on me
that decaf coffee never tastes anywhere as good as the real thing.