What is the science on energy drinks?

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W3: What is the science behind energy drinks?

Forum 3B

Title: What is the science on energy drinks?

This week, you are learning to fuel the athlete. For Forum 3A, you found an energy drink and reported on that drink. Now let’s explore the literature to see what is known. How safe are these energy drinks? Are they appropriate? For this Forum, find one peer-reviewed research article and present it.

To find your article, go to the APUS online library. You are looking for a research article that is published in a peer-reviewed journal, not an article published in a magazine like Muscle Magazine or on the website, Body Building. These are examples of publications for the general public that are not peer-reviewed by scientists. The journal article you select should be a research study related to energy drinks and sports. Remember to apply what you learned in Forum 1 to find your peer-reviewed research article.

If you cannot find a research article in the APUS online library, go to the following website: Pubmed. In the search bar at the top (cursor most likely will be blinking in this box), enter “energy drinks.” More than 863 articles should be referenced. You can select one from this list. DO NOT SELECT AN ARTICLE ANOTHER STUDENT HAS SELECTED. Once you have decided which article you would like to review, get that article from the library. We talked about strategies for finding articles in Forum 1.

In your Forum post:

  • list your selected article
  • provide the reference for your chosen article
  • describe the study and the results
  • state what the study concludes
  • evaluate the article. Do you think the study made appropriate conclusions from its data? Was the study designed correctly to address the hypothesis?
  • Does the study support the hypothesis that energy drinks are safe? If yes, tell how. If no, again tell how.

Before you post your initial discussion, submit it to the assignment area so it can be evaluated by Turnitin. Points will be deducted if you do not do this. Before you post your discussion, make sure your originality index (%) is less than 15. If it is greater than 15, rewrite your discussion, submit it again to Turnitin and check the %. Keep doing this until your % is less than 15. Only post your discussion when the % is less than 15.