Summary 4 Sites

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/caffeine/NU00600

This specific part of the website is telling you the effects of caffeine can have on the body. It tells all of the symptoms like, Insomnia .It tells you when you should consider cutting back on your caffeine intake and it tells you how much caffeine you should have daily, if you have any. Also it tells you not to drinks caffeine when you are on certain medications because it can cause produce harsh side effects. It gives tips on how you can kick your caffeine habits as well.

http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(08)00165-1/abstract

This specific site focuses on what energy drinks can lead too. The first thing on the website says that energy drinks can lead to bad behavior in adolescents and emerging adults. There is a positive correlation between energy drinks consumption and marijuana use, sexual risk taking, and also smoking and drinking problems. The site concludes that energy drinks are closely associated with a problematic behavior. It also says that if you drink energy drinks frequently it can lead to the behaviors mentioned earlier.


http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/fitness/articles/2007/01/29/are_energy_drinks_bad_for_you/


On this website it explains that

Survey Questions

1.Have you ever had an energy drink? Yes or no

       2.   How old are you?

3.    Are you male or female?

4.      Do energy drinks give you energy? True or False

5.       When would you use an energy drink?

6.       From 1-10 How much energy do energy drinks give you?

 

7.       What brand of energy drink is the best

Red bull

Monster

Vault

Other

 

8.       Energy drinks contain the same caffeine as a 2 cans of coca cola? True or false

 

9.      Energy drinks contain taurine which is unknown what the effect is on humans?  True or False

10.   Would you rather have an apple or an energy drink of your choice?

 

11.   How many energy drinks should you drink in a week?

A.      1

B.      0

C.      +5

D.      2

 

12.   How many monster energy drinks would it take to kill the average man?

A.      633

B.      43

C.      115

D.      71

Graph

Energy drinks contain outrageous amounts of caffeine, 200mg of caffeine is about the most you should drink but there are people who drink multiple energy drinks daily putting them over the 200mg mark which could lead to insomnia, nervousness, Irritability, muscle tremors, headaches, upset stomach and other symptoms. Some people are more sensitive then other so even less than 200mg of caffeine could have you jittery  

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Essential Questions

1.) How do energy drinks give people "energy"?
2.) What does taurine do to the human body?
3.) How many Energy Drinks a week can you drink and still be on a "healthy" diet?
4.) How do Energy Drinks work
5.) What are in energy drinks

Follow up

From where I am now I want to be able to fund money for research to figure out what taurine (a chemical in energy drinks) does to the human body. My question that should be logically examined and research is are energy drinks safe for people to drink when there are things in them that we don't know the side effect to.

The Effects of Taurine

Data Analysis:

I failed to ask questions concerning the survey taker’s age. This had a negative impact on the way I graphed my data. I couldn't be specific, but I was able to get enough data to tell whether or not my hypothesis was correct. In my case my hypothesis was in fact correct. The majority of the people I surveyed, 16 out of 25 to be concise, answered that they were not aware of the effects taurine could do to their bodies, however, they still drank the energy drinks knowing that they consist taurine. Being that I had no demographic based questions in my survey though I was not able to detect any trends or patterns within the 25 completed surveys.

Context

My target audience are older people and teens that use energy drinks. I chose these people because they are the heaviest energy drink users. I'm going to have to give out new surveys because I didn't have a demographic question on my surveys

Hypothesis

I believe that people don't get energy from energy drinks its just a placebo effect just because of the colors of the can and the misleading commercials people are manipulated to think that they work. I think that people are going to rate how much energy they get from energy drinks higher the younger they are.