I Get the Jitters Just Thinking About It

Energy drinks are all the rage, actually they have been for quite some time, it seems.  I’ve never drank one, myself, unless you count the one time I did one of those Red Bull drink concoctions in a bar to amuse my sister-in-law.  I just don’t need the extra energy, I guess.

Anyway, here’s a few words that cause me to jitter because of whose mouths they are tumbling from.

"Young people are taking caffeine to stay awake, or perhaps to get high, and many of them are ending up in the emergency department,’’ said Dr. Danielle McCarthy of Northwestern University, who conducted the study. “Caffeine is a drug and should be treated with caution, as any drug is.’’

Via damaged justice, who has this to say about the medical community expressing their concern.

Because of crap like this:  caffeine will be regulated.

The article itself is titled Caffeine-Stoked Energy Drinks Worry Doctors.

Posted by on 10/31 at 01:38 PM

  1. From the article:

    How much caffeine do energy drinks contain? A University of Florida study found that some products, although served in cans two-thirds the size of a standard can of Coke, contain two to four times the amount of caffeine as that Coke.
    In other words, about the same amount of caffine on a per-ounce basis as coffee. And as any (non-Canadian) college student can tell you, Mountain Dew is a better caffeinated soft drink against which to compare the likes of Red Bull.

    Posted by  on  10/31  at  05:20 PM

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