• Question: do energy drinks have any permanent effect on the body and how do they effect us

    Asked by goughj09 to Helen, Jenni, Mark, Martin, Stu on 23 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Helen O'Connor

      Helen O'Connor answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      Gives you wings (if you have enough of them!). Seriously though, they dont typically have a permanent effect on the body as they are just to replace lost fluids and energy sources that the body needs.

      There are three main types of sports drinks; isotonic, hypertonic and hypotonic – and each type does a different thing, depending on what type of training you are doing.

      This is a good page showing how you can make your own drinks pretty easily from kitchen ingredients: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/health_and_fitness/4289704.stm

      ISOTONIC – help quickly replace fluids which are lost by sweating and give a boost of carbohydrates
      HYPERTONIC – are an addition to your daily carbohydrate intake from food, and contain higher levels of carbs than isotonic drinks
      HYPOTONIC – quickly replace fluids lost through sweating – they are low in carbohydrates and are more for the fluid replacement than anything else

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