Avoid the Poison Cocktail!

I find this hilariously comical yet disturbingly scarey.  As a college student I always wasn't the safest, best nourished, student.  Many times bars would offer drink specials.  Most every time the special was some concoction of an energy drink (Monster, Red Bull, etc.) combined with hard alcohol.

Most every time I got sick as a dog after drinking these things.  My body never knew if it wanted to bounce off the walls, go into a perpetual sleep mode, or just simply seize to function all toegether.  The next day I would always have the worst hangover of my life.  Furthermore I heard rumors of people having heart attacks, falling into comas, you know all the common college urban legends that float around.

Apparently there was some merit to the urban legends!  After my college years these drinks gained some traction and alcohol distributors started bundling them and selling them as alcoholic energy drinks (Sparks, Four Loco, etc.).  The FDA is now recalling all these energy drinks!

Here's an excerpt from the CNN article, FDA Calls 7 Caffeine-Alcohol Drinks Unsafe

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told the manufacturers of seven caffeinated alcoholic beverages Wednesday that their drinks are a "public health concern" and can't stay on the market in their current form.

Personally, I'd recommend staying away from these poison cocktails all together.  I'd actually recommend staying away from drinks which combine refined sugars and caffeine all together.  Let alone alcoholic drinks with these two!  Caffeine only serves to amplify the negative effects of the underlying ingredients as it increases your circulation delivering the nutrients to more nooks and crannies in your body.

But hey it's your body and your health.  So enjoy!

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