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Five-Hour Energy Linked to Heart Attacks, 'Spontaneous Abortion'
Yahoo! News ^ | 11/14/12 | Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire

Posted on 11/15/2012 9:23:27 AM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: arthurus

yep, they work great.


61 posted on 11/15/2012 12:55:10 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Our president ... makes big speeches packed full of little ideas" Charles C. W. Cooke)
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To: Mr. Blond

“First they came for the ephedrine...”

i took one of those 6 years ago and it wired me for 2 days. took the bottle back to walgreens, explained what happen, and they gave me a refund. never again on any of that crap BUT, unlike libtards, i don’t want it banded just because i don’t like it. i cannot take statins but that doesn’t mean they don’t help lots of people. the world does not revolve around me.


62 posted on 11/15/2012 12:55:44 PM PST by bravo whiskey
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To: NonValueAdded; aft_lizard

There’s no sugar in 5 Hour Energy Drink (sweetened with Splenda).

Also, you didn’t mention the other active “energy” ingredients: taurine, glucuronolactone, malic Acid, citicoline, tyrosine, phenylalanine. At least, you mentioned the B-complex, which most MSM reviewers of energy drinks fail to do.

I occasionally use energy drinks, including 5 Hour. I find that they do increase alertness, without the jitters that accompany ingesting too much caffiene. I suspect that energy drinks have prevented many more traffic deaths, than the number of heart attacks the article claims they’ve caused.

There’s a lot of misinformation out there about energy drinks. Lazy MSM reporters simply call them “high caffeine” drinks (which does not apply to many of them) as if caffeine were the only active ingredient. It does seem that, as aft_lizard says in #15, it’s all about setting up for law suits.

Anything —*anything*, even pure water — will kill you, if you ingest too much of it, too quickly. Do we need government’s to ban everything that *might* harm us — or do we simply need to READ THE FLIPPING LABEL?


63 posted on 11/15/2012 12:58:19 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: NormsRevenge

A good does of Vitamins has been doing me a world of good lately

For any freepers over 50:

Niacin- the first time you take it it might freak you out- you will feel hot and flushed for about a half hour. After you get used to it you will love the flushed out feeling afterwards

Valaryan and Melatonin - for sleeping

Saw Palmetto- I found that taking it every day is not the best way- I have changed to a double dose on weekends only

Vitamin E AND Magnesium (together they have a synnergistic effect, I think, for making you feel good)

DO NOT FORGET ORANGE JUICE!!! Fresh squoze is best but anything is better than nothing

MUSHROOMS! I have been getting all kinds of dried mushrooms from the asian market and I can whip up a mushroom soup in a flash- and I can’t get enough of it!

Herbs- Tumeric, basil, oregano- use them!!!!!!!!!!!

GNC has some good brands of Testosterone boosters- The natural kids are better than the synthetic ones, but they are both expensive.

I spent $300 in GNC a few months ago and I felt better than I had in years using the above combinations

I am tempted to wrote a book- I feel like my health has been improving so much lately from my research into good fooods and vitamins


64 posted on 11/15/2012 12:59:48 PM PST by Mr. K (some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: NormsRevenge
Both the paper and the FDA are careful to point out that correlation does not equal causation in these horrifying examples of pick-me-ups gone wrong.

The report is likely the raw data report, where data is collected about what, if any, "substances" were consumed within the time period immediately preceding an event.

You can't tell anything from these reports. If there is a significant jump in numbers, then they can spend money on an actual study. The study would compare the rate of some outcome being reported to the same rate for those not in the group.

For example, if 20% of 30-year-olds are found to take 5-hour energy, and then they found that 20% of the heart attacks of 30-year-olds were people who consumed 5-hour energy, that would just be the expected outcome.

Too many people don't understand this, and whenever something bad happens, they just want to blame whatever they just did in the last day or two.

65 posted on 11/15/2012 1:01:35 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Do we need governments to ban .... (How did that apostrophe get in there?)
66 posted on 11/15/2012 1:04:48 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: NormsRevenge

Every body dies...... that includes the subset taking 5 hour energy.

The probability of another causative is very likely. Having an easy target to sue is the root of the article


67 posted on 11/15/2012 1:05:02 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: NonValueAdded

“Take a high dose B-Complex capsule and wash it down with a double espresso plus 5 sugars for a similar (and cheaper) effect”

A 5 hour energy drink is nothing more then a high dose of B-Complex. No sugar or caffeine just B6 & B12 I think.

JB


68 posted on 11/15/2012 2:13:33 PM PST by thatjoeguy ( Hulk... SMASH!!)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Approaching 70 I've found that coffee in the AM plays havoc with my digestive system to the point that I can't leave the house until my third visit to the throne room. Now when I've something to do in the AM, I forego the caffeine for a 5 Hour and I'm not forced to waste half my day.
(at my age, every half day counts)

69 posted on 11/15/2012 2:16:59 PM PST by Roccus
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To: NormsRevenge
Look how low the incidents are - Seriously I heard on the radio tonight that 3,000 people die each year eating improperly stored leftovers. I don't drink these but I don't think the numbers warrent a national emegency.
70 posted on 11/15/2012 2:25:03 PM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: NormsRevenge
Look how low the incidents are - Seriously I heard on the radio tonight that 3,000 people die each year eating improperly stored leftovers. I don't drink these but I don't think the numbers warrent a national emegency.
71 posted on 11/15/2012 2:25:03 PM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: thatjoeguy
FWIW, Earl Mindell cautions against taking over 500mg of B-6 and, I quote, "Pregnant women should check with their doctors before taking sustained doses of over 50 mg of vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine)." He also cautions diabetics and those talking L-dopa treatments for Parkinsons about B-6 use.

As for no caffeine, this chart begs to differ. Granted it is a wiki entry but I'd think the drink companies would be all over it if it was inaccurate.

72 posted on 11/15/2012 3:40:29 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Our president ... makes big speeches packed full of little ideas" Charles C. W. Cooke)
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To: Docbarleypop

It is far cheaper to just take the micro-dots(sublingual tabs) from WalMart. There is no crash because B-12 is a vitamin and most folks do not get enough in their diet.


73 posted on 11/15/2012 6:00:13 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: Docbarleypop

I tried the 5-Hour a couple of times when I was working night shift and it worked as advertised. Finally I read the label and remembered seeing the microdots in WM. I went and bought a bottle of 236 for $2.00. Further study convinced me that the liquid form is he most effective and e 2 of the 500 size tabs would be equivalent to one 5hr. Actually I did great with just one tab and, being naturally cheap, did not go up to the 1000 units indicated. Somebody told my daughter to take B-12 for her sciatica, She takes the 2500s and has not been bothered by it in years.


74 posted on 11/15/2012 6:08:12 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: NormsRevenge

75 posted on 11/15/2012 7:20:32 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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76 posted on 11/16/2012 4:35:01 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (0 bummer inherited a worse economy in 2012 than he did in 2008.)
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