...Are sugary drinks really that dangerous? I believe sugary drinks are quite dangerous. In fact, sugary drinks are extremely dangerous, and should be banned. Today sugary drinks are one of the leading causes of obesity and other illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease. This has been an increasingly important issue amongst kids 6-12 years of age. There have been various laws/bans put in place such as the New York City ban of soft drinks that are larger than 16 oz. In the article “Your Favorite Drinks Can Wreck Your Body” by Russ Lloyd, he talks about how more and more states are putting restrictions/bans on sugary drinks do to the dangerous effects they have on people. Although some say sugary drinks aren’t so bad, in “Let us enjoy our sweet drinks in piece” by Evan Cook, he describes just that, however, sugary drinks are extremely dangerous because they can lead to deadly illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, and are also extremely addictive, and are the leading cause of obesity and diabetes in America today....
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...000 years ago, the people of New Guinea started farming the crop known as sugar cane. They planted it, and then they chewed it. Surprisingly, they liked it so much that sugar became a part of their religion! Humans have fallen in love with sugar thousands of years ago, and are still deeply attached to it today. In “Your Favorite Drinks Can Wreck Your Body” by Russ Lloyd and “Banning Large Sodas is Legal and Smart” by Lawrence O. Gostin, they examine the growing problem of sugary drinks in the United States. People and children are ingesting more sugar than ever. Sugar is in everything we eat, a lot of sugar in some drinks, and people are just eating way too much of it now. Some people say that the sugary beverages they are drinking aren’t all that bad; however, I believe that sugary drinks are terrible because it is bad for your health, addictive, and it can lead...
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...For years people have argued over whether or not the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) in America should be lowered or stay the same. One of the main controversial issues regarding alcohol consumption in our society today is whether or not the legal drinking age is appropriate. Both sides to the argument have very considerable points that support their side of the argument. Do to these disagreements, the issue of whether or not to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18 has become controversial. The best solution is to allow citizens that are 18 and older to drink but also follow strict rules and regulations to make sure it is not taken advantage of. This solution will help keep people safe while also allowing those 18 or older to have a good...
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...energy source, capable of boosting the human body to new limits by extending its endurance, continues. In the recent years energy drinks have become extremely popular all around the world. The energy drink is a highly caffeinated stimulant that is able to raise the performance of the human body. Many people consider it as a refreshment after a hard day’s work. What’s more, one of the most frequently used cases of energy drinks is in combination with alcohol during parties. Due to lack of research and production regulations of energy drinks in combination with high consumption pose a serious health risk for everyone who is consuming them. Since the last few years the reported...
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...Alcoholism in Society SOC100 Introduction to Sociology Alcoholism in Society What are the causes, effects, and solutions of alcoholism in today’s society? Alcoholism is one of the most prevalent sociological issues facing people in today’s society. It really relates to the field of sociology as it studies how it affects people as a whole and how it affects their daily lives when interacting with others. The known causes of alcoholism are from various reasons such as problems, stress, pressure, culture, genetics, and psychology. Alcoholism is also caused by what people see others are doing such as commercials, movies, and television shows. Many people start drinking at a young age because of how their upbringing was and who they are hanging out with especially in school. A lot of students get such experience because of what they see in society and how it can become part of their life. This is where the early stages of alcoholism begin because when it starts at a young age, the tolerance to alcohol becomes very high and results in them having more drinks. It is socially accepted in some societies at parties and gatherings where people are expected to have a drink or two and sometimes ending up having more because of peer pressure and how people will think about them when they don’t have that drink. Another major factor causing alcoholism is the emotions that people are experiencing and how they deal with those emotions especially when it has enormous stress on a relationship...
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...The effects of consuming energy drinks Woodbury University ISC-TELP program 03/24/2011 Nowadays energy drinks become more and more popular, especially among young people. They drink it because it helps to get rid of fatigue and sleepiness. It is also tasty like any carbonated beverage, what makes it more popular. And influence of advertisement is also high. But people do not care about negative effects of energy drinks such as different diseases and sleeping problems. The only one positive thing is filling the body up with energy. First of all, consuming energy drinks may cause many diseases. One of them is headache. I felt it from my own experience and it was really awful. The second is gastritis. The person can get it because of gases and concentrates which this beverage contains. But this fact does not make people stop to consume it. One more the most dangerous treat is possibility of getting heart diseases. It may become the reason of death, so it is very important to think before drinking any energy beverage. Secondly, consuming energy drinks may cause problems with sleeping, what is also dangerous. If person does not sleep enough he can get stressed and not concentrated. As a consequence may be a resonant problems with studying or important activities. Finally, energy drinks have one positive side. It is giving more energy. It can be very useful during exams or working on important project. Human's...
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...urge to drink. Social environment, peer influence, stresses, and even reasons such as media influence associate with underage drinking. Peer pressure is a powerful predictor of alcohol use among teens. Americans have a very strong urge to be accepted and liked by their peers. Everyone wants to feel a sense of belonging. Many adolescents feel that they need to drink alcohol to gain this acceptance by the others around them. Stress is also another reason why teens may feel apt to drink alcohol. Stress causes teenagers to look for a quick escape from the problems, which they face, in their day-to-day lives. This quick escape can be found in the shape of a bottle. In the eyes of an underage drinker, alcohol is the cure to all problems, a way to forget all of stress and pressures that are facing them. They feel that it will numb their pain and continuing to use alcohol will result in maybe another problem, substance abuse. Popularity shouldn’t come along with breaking the law. Also, the cure to the problems in someone’s life isn’t breaking the law, because the affects alcohol has on the body causes a lot more issues down the road. Alcohol use is extremely common in our society. Young ones grow up watching their parents drink, at special occasions, as well as casually enjoying a few beers at a picnic. Now a day’s kids and young adults are surrounded by the use of alcohol on a daily basis. Underage drinking not only has devastating effects on those who drink but also...
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...about soft drinks and calories in order to find out the relation of these products with the obesity problems we are having in our country, and how can they be resolved with the implementation of diets or strategies that will help the people. Source #1 “Hard News About Soft Drinks”. Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter 29.4 (2011): 4. MasterFILE Premier.Web. Quote: Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter 29.4 reports, “ In a study of 2,564 people, average age 69, over about nine years, drinking diet soda daily was associated with the 60% higher rate of stroke, heart attack and death from cardiovascular causes. Even after adjusting for other factors linked to heart disease, diet-soda drinkers remained at 48% greater risk” (Hard). Annotation: This article was made by the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter which is a very popular place and well known by their studies of health, nutrition and other things related with people. The article was available and accessible in the HCC databases and was recently written on the year 2011. I choose this article because it is very rich in information about the topic I’m researching which is soft drinks and their bad effects that it causes on humans. “Hard News About Soft Drinks”, talks about the risks of consuming soft drinks, especially those diet sodas that we think they are better for us but they end up having worse effects on our bodies and health. In this research paper I wanted to cover soft drinks in general...
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...Red Bull is an Austria-based company started in 1987 by Dietrich Mateschitz that sells one product: an energy drink containing taurine (an amino acid) that’s sold in a slim, silver-colored 8.3-ounce can. The drink has been an enormous hit with the company’s target youth segment around the globe. For the year 2001, Red Bull boasted sales of $51 million in the United States alone and captured 70% of the energy-drink market worldwide. From Stanford University in California to the beaches of Australia and Thailand, Red Bull has managed to maintain its hip, cool image, with virtually no mass-market advertising. However, today, due to certain health issues and the growth in competitors in the market, several doubts and issues have come across for Red Bull such as Whether Red Bull is able to maintain its lead and its point of differences or the brand may simply lost its edge and become “slate”, Whether the concern of health and bloggers might have a huge negative impact on Red Bull, Whether Red Bull’s target audience move on as it ages is an issue due to its limited product line, and so on. The matter of maintain a company lead in the market is always present as same as for its point of differences in products. In the case of Red Bull, according to recent records of energy drinks product companies in 2015, Red Bull owned 60% to 70% market shares which means globally Red Bull is one of top brands, establishing over 167 countries with approximately 5 million cans selling per year in...
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...Case Overview and Product Description In December of 2011, 14 year old Anais Fournier purchased and consumed two 24 oz Monster Energy drinks within one 24 hour period. This is the equivalent of 6 servings for an adult. She went into cardiac arrest the night of December 17th and died the evening of December 18th. Her parents sue Monster for damages on the basis of Strict Liability and Negligence. Monster is sold as dietary supplements instead of food item, so it is not as strictly regulated. It is marketed as a supplement that increases energy, promotes focus, and helps with weight loss. The drink contains an excessive amount of caffeine and other drugs that combine to increase heart rate, body temperature, and neural stimulation. Two 24 oz servings of Monster is above a safe dose of caffeine for most bodily demographics. Within 15 minutes of consumption the effects of the caffeine kick in. Due to increased neural sensitivity and dehydration, painful headaches are very common. 24 oz of Monster is also a lot of liquid to drink. Drinking 12 oz causes most people discomfort and would cause a reasonable person to stop drinking. The body naturally feels the danger because it is under a lot of stress from the beverage. For most reasonable people this bodily danger is obvious. Despite this physical discomfort, many people continue to abuse Monster. Thousands have ended up in the ER, and tragically there have been over 5 fatalities involving Monster. Comparison to McDonald's Hot Coffee...
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...abuse is such that, is the third leading cause of death in America. There are approximately 80,000 deaths attributable to excessive alcohol use each year in the United States. Alcohol along with tobacco has become the most legal used drugs in the world. About 65% of American adults claim to drink socially, however numbers get astonishingly big around college students, 90% of college kids drink, and the word occasionally takes a twist here, because college students are reported to be heavy drinkers, which means on average, more than two drinks for men a day and one for women. One drink is defined by its alcohol content; one drink refers to a 12 oz. beer, 5 oz. of wine, or a 1.5 oz. of 80 proof (40%) pure alcohol shot or liquor in a mixed drink like a cocktail. Alcohol consumption is believed to be, nearly five times more than what moderate standards refer to. This is increasingly worrying, because more alcohol consumption means increasing risk, not only for the drinker itself, but to all the people around the individual and even third parties. But now, let’s focus on this – Alcoholism, a word that no drinker wants to use, or even acknowledge as a problem associated with their life. But, what defines alcoholism? The world health Organization defines alcoholism, as an Alcohol Dependence Syndrome, compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages. Alcoholism is now medically considered a disease and an addiction. People who...
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...ongoing problems, which targets mostly the black community. Substance abuse is not appealing especially to African American because they are more dependent for care and treatment. In the African American society today major problems that affect our community are increasing in rates because of drug abusers. However, the inferior impact on our race that it causes and the consequences it creates. Cultural biases and the constant emphasis on typical American values and lifestyles may contribute to drug abuse within the African American community. The psychological well being of African Americans today is consistently disagreeing with the constant reminder of their place in society. The inferior place is of course the place in which many African Americans allow themselves to be put in. Experts on drug abuse disorders agree that poverty and other socioeconomic factors have a great impact on the rise of drug abuse in the African American community (Britt 8). These common mistaken ideas by experts have a great impact on the way African Americans view themselves. Rather than suggesting to that, the several socioeconomic factors are the cause of drug abuse from an outsider point of view. Experts should do their research from within the black community. Research in substance abuse often does not specify descriptive variables such as gender, age, income, and location. The variables are basic in showing the differences in drug abuse patterns, whether they are between different races or within...
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...With high-calorie, high-fat, cheap food available on every street corner, it has become easy to blame food consumption for America’s obesity epidemic. However, what we choose to drink can affect our health just as much as, if not more than, our eating habits. That is why more and more people are cutting high-calorie sodas and going for little-to-no calorie, supposedly healthier options. Sure, we’re told that drinking eight glasses of water daily should be one of our health goals, but drinking only water can get a little boring. And why would a person choose to pack on the extra 155 calories from that can of Coca-Cola when she can have a can of Diet Coke and get almost the same taste for no calories? Diet sodas attempt to cut the calories that are in regular soda by developing sweeteners that don’t contain the calories of corn syrup, which is used in regular soda. Even though they do not contain calories, though, these sweeteners still do pose some potentially serious health concerns. There are many reasons people prefer soft drinks to juice or plain water. Most sodas have a taste that water can’t compare to. Some people like the light, citrusy flavors of 7Up and Sprite, while others go for a sweeter tasting soda, like Coca-Cola. They’re all carbonated, so the fizziness adds to the already-sweet flavor. But even though there are tons of different flavors, most of the non-diet soda is sweetened with the same thing: corn syrup, which is being used as a cheaper alternative to sugar...
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...the dustbin. This behavior is become a fashion in China. However, do we really need to drink bottled water? No, we don’t really need the bottled water. The bottled water causes a lot of problems for our society. Currently, bottled water has become the most popular drink in the world. Americans like the bottled water so much. “The United States is the largest consumer market for bottled water in the world, followed by Mexico, China, and Brazil.” (Wikipedia) Here is some data about bottled water in 2008, “U.S. bottled water sales topped 8.6 billion gallons for 28.9% of the U.S. liquid refreshment beverage market, exceeding sales of all other beverages except carbonated soft drinks, followed by fruit juices and sports drinks.” [ (Wikipedia) ] Some people think the bottled water is a very important thing in our life. But I don’t think so. The bottled water is not a requisite in our life. “It is not you chose me, but I chose you.” as the Bible said. It is not that we chose the bottled water, but the producer of bottled water chose us. There is a data, “in 1987, when the average number of Americans drinking bottled water was 21.6L. After ten years, in 1997, the average number had increased to more than 50L” (Guan, Who make us drink the bottled water?). What make the Americans drink more and more bottle waters? It is the advertisements. A lot of kinds of advertisements make people want to drink the bottle waters. Some of...
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...What Is An Alcoholic? What Is Alcoholism? An alcoholic is a man or a woman who suffers from alcoholism - they have a distinct physical desire to consume alcohol beyond their capacity to control it, regardless of all rules of common sense. According to Alcoholics Anonymous UK, who say they have no unique definition for alcoholism, it may be described as a physical compulsion, together with a mental obsession. Apart from having an enormous craving for alcohol, an alcoholic often yields to that craving at the worst possible times. The alcoholic knows neither when nor how to stop drinking. Definition - an alcoholic is a person, while alcoholism is the illness. An alcoholic suffers from alcoholism. Alcoholism is a long-term (chronic) disease. Alcoholics are obsessed with alcohol and cannot control how much they consume, even if it is causing serious problems at home, work, and financially. Alcohol abuse generally refers to people who do not display the characteristics of alcoholism, but still have a problem with it - they are not as dependent on alcohol as an alcoholic is; they have not yet completely lost their control over its consumption. Moderate alcohol consumption will not generally cause any psychological or physical harm. However, for some individuals, social drinking eventually leads to heavier and heavier alcohol consumption, which does cause serious health and psychological problems. Alcoholism in the UK - one in every 13 people in the United Kingdom is...
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