From the article:
“According to medical researchers at the Mayo Clinic, excessive consumption of soft drinks containing BVO has been linked to negative health effects, including reports of memory loss and skin and nerve problems”
From the Mayo Clinic:
“There also have been a few reports of people experiencing memory loss and skin and nerve problems after drinking excessive amounts (more than 2 liters a day) of soda containing BVO.”
From Wikipedia:
“However, there was no evidence that the symptoms were caused by that particular ingredient. [16]”
From the article cited in Wikipedia:
“One extrapolation from the pig studies was the estimate that a 165-pound adult would have to drink 353 12-ounce cans of soda per day for 42 days to have detectable bromine in his/her fat. Laughable, you say? Your intrepid investigator has read the medical report of a man whose diet included three or four liters of BVO’d soda every day. In a month, he was in the ER with confusion, headaches, tremors, memory loss, and fatigue. By the time he was correctly diagnosed two months later, he couldn’t walk and was pretty much down for the count. Luckily, the diagnosis of bromism and six hours of hemodialysis brought him around.”
You guys figure it out.
The new Alar scare of our times.
Just to sharpen the point a bit, a 165-pound man would have to consume 33 gallons of soda every day for 42 straight days just to have any detectable bromine.
Man, people are gullable. I'm beginning to think people like to be scared. They like to be frightened just so they can do SOMETHING and thereby feel in control.