I thought Energy Drinks were Healthy?

In the news in Boston, energy drinks such as Jolt, and Full throttle contain synthetic caffeine which makes the consumers who drink these products feel good because they are staying awake, but do not fulfill the need of antioxidants. The reason that this is bad, is because antioxidants are needed in our bodies to slow, or prevent the oxidative damage to our body. With energy drinks of this sort just giving caffeine, and no antioxidants, is just breaking the human body down, with absolutely no back up, to stop the breakdown.

    The reason that this is important to biology and science, is mainly because when most people think about antioxidants, they think of energy drinks such as blueberry, blackberry, or anything healthy in the berry section. Now, since studies are showing that energy drinks are only providing people a large amount of synthetic caffeine, then this by any chance has fooled many people into buying energy drinks.

    We are about information of this sort, mainly because people want to know what they are eating, and what is in their food in this day and age, and when people are constantly being fooled about the contents that are inside of their food, then this leaves people many times on edge about buying certain products that could potentially be harmful, for their bodies that they always thought were good for their body.

    Source:http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/62737/title/Most_energy_drinks_lag_in_added_health_benefits