I wanted to see if a lot of people drink energy drinks so I conducted a poll of four questions. I asked the first 10 people that I saw walking into my building. I wanted to see a rough percentage of energy drink users, how easy people it is to overdose on them, if people thought there are health risks with energy drinks, and if people liked the taste of energy drinks.
1. Do you drink energy drinks?
7/10
2. Do you think it is easy to overdose on energy drinks?
7/10
3. Do you think there are any health risks associated with drinking energy drinks?
9/10
4. Do you enjoy the taste of energy drinks?
6/7
Breaking down the statistics:
7 of the 10 people have had an energy drink in their life time. I feel like that statistic is accurate because the amount of use of energy drinks is growing. I’m not sure if it’s for the better or worse.
7 of the 10 people think it is easy to overdose on an energy drink. As I’ve blogged about before there is a web page that clearly shows that it is NOT easy to overdose on energy drinks or any substance containing caffeine. Click on the link to see what I'm talking about.
9 of the 10 people think that there are health risks associated with energy drinks. I’m really not sure if this is true because I’ve read that they can be healthy, and I’ve also read that they are responsible for heart attacks.
6 of the 7 people who have tried energy drinks think that they are tasty. I wanted to know what everyone thought about this because when I was in high school everyone hated the taste of energy drinks and the taste was one of the reasons people stayed away.
The only surprise I found was that only one person I polled thought that there are no health risks associated with energy drinks. This leads to the question a big question. Why do people drink energy drinks if they know that they are unhealthy?
I drink energy drinks to keep me awake(Monday 7:30AM to 9:30PM, Thursday 7:30AM to 6:15PM; don't follow this schedule, it's evil). If I were to do the survey, I would have also said yes to all of the above. On the question of health, it would really depend on the person; I would liken it to alcohol absorption. As for taste, I think people just get used to it. I drink energy drinks (if not, then coffee/tea), or anything that would keep me awake for 6-9 hours. I prefer not to randomly sleep in class>.>
ReplyDeletethe point is that a lot of people drink them and at the same time they think that they're un healthy... Why take something that YOU think is unhealthy?
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