• Alc.-Energy Drinks Under Fire (AP) Beverage companies that sell alcoholic energy drinks were harshly criticized Tuesday by more than two dozen state attorneys general who want federal officials to examine the ingredients and marketing of the drinks they say are aimed at underage customers. In a letter to John Manfreda, the administrator of the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, the attorneys general of 28 states and Washington, D.C., and Guam say aggressive — and possibly fraudulent — marketing of energy drinks mixing alcohol and caffeine targets teenagers and young adults who buy nonalcoholic energy drinks. 'Nonalcoholic energy drinks are very popular with today's youth,' Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers said. 'Beverage companies are unconscionably appealing to young drinkers with claims about the stimulating properties of alcoholic energy drinks.' The attorneys general singled out Miller Brewing Co. for Sparks and Sparks Plus, Anheuser-Busch for Bud Extra and Charge Beverages of Portland for its Liquid Charge and Liquid Core drinks.
• Ask the Diabetes Team Red Bull energy drink contains a very large amount of caffeine as compared with the average intake of the children in the U.S. (about 14 mg of caffeine). In fact, a Red Bull can is 250 ml with 82 mg of caffeine. A recent paper showed the results observed in 26 children between the ages of nine and 11 years that completed a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Habitual caffeine consumers (mean daily caffeine intake of 109 mg) and non/low-consumers (12 mg) were tested on two separate days following overnight caffeine abstinence. On each day, measures of cognitive performance (a number search task), and self-rated mood and physical symptoms, including alertness and headache, were taken before and after administration of 50 mg of caffeine or placebo. In summary, the results suggest that children probably derive little or no benefit from habitual caffeine intake, although negative symptoms associated with overnight caffeine withdrawal are avoided or rapidly reversed by subsequent caffeine consumption. Moreover, Red Bull contains taurine and glucuronolattone, and, to date, no data are published in the literature about this.
  
  AS Additional comments from Dr. Stuart Brink: They are just high caloric drinks. A lot of sugar and very high caffeine is unnecessary for anyone. Sugar-free and high caffeine values eliminate the sugar calories but, obviously, not the buzz. If someone with diabetes wanted to treat hypoglycemia, this could be used but why add caffeine? If someone with diabetes wanted to use a high caffeine drink without sugar, this fits the bill. If someone were using this as a way to stay awake, treat headaches or get a buzz, then the question remains why is so much caffeine needed in the first place.
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• Energy Drinks Worry Doctors Add to delicious Digg It! Save to Newsvine Add to reddit Add to Netscape Email to Friend Email CHICAGO (AP) -- More than 500 new energy drinks launched worldwide this year, and coffee fans are probably too old to understand why. Energy drinks aren't merely popular with young people. They attract fan mail on their own MySpace pages. They spawn urban legends. They get reviewed by bloggers. And they taste like carbonated cough syrup. Vying for the dollars of teenagers with promises of weight loss, increased endurance and legal highs, the new products join top-sellers Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar to make up a $3.4 billion-a-year industry that grew by 80 percent last year. Thirty-one percent of U.S. teenagers say they drink energy drinks, according to Simmons Research. That represents 7.6 million teens, a jump of almost 3 million in three years. Nutritionists warn that the drinks, laden with caffeine and sugar, can hook kids on an unhealthy jolt-and-crash cycle. The caffeine comes from multiple sources, making it hard to tell how much the drinks contain. Some have B vitamins, which when taken in megadoses can cause rapid heartbeat, and numbness and tingling in the hands and feet.
• FOOD navigator.com Europe Soft drinks, diabetes link sparks fierce debate Related News Industry slams sweetener study US schools urged to cut soda sales, promote fruit Single food ingredient the cause of obesity ? New study has industry up in arms Finding solutions to 'globesity' News Archives All news for November 2007 All news for October 2007 25/08/2004 - Research suggesting a link between soft drink consumption and rising levels of diabetes in the US has sparked fierce criticism from consumer groups and beverage industry associations. Scientists with an axe to grind have manipulated the data, the critics claim, despite their own admissions that the figures simply do not add up. The study of 52,000 nurses was carried out over an eight-year period by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in the US and was published in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Type 2 diabetes affects about 17 million US individuals, and the prevalence of diabetes has increased rapidly during the last decades, the report's authors say, suggesting a link with soft drink consumption in the US, which has also increased dramatically during this time - by 61 per cent between 1977 and 1997 in adults and by more than 100 per cent in children and adolescents between 1977 and 1998. 'No study has examined the association between the consumption of soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages and risk of type 2 diabetes,' they wrote. 'We therefore examined the relationships between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and weight gain and diabetes risk in a large cohort of young and middle-aged women, controlling for potential confounding factors. 'Because the majority of sugar-sweetened beverages consumed in this cohort are soft drinks, we particularly emphasised soft drink consumption.' The study participants were asked how often they had consumed a commonly used unit or portion size of various types of food on average over the previous year, including both regular and diet soft drinks. At the same time, they were also assessed for signs of the onset of diabetes. The authors report that woman who drank large quantities of soft drinks and showed signs of diabetes were also on average heavy smokers, physically inactive and had a poor diet - factors which could also lead to a higher diabetes risk - but that was still a 'strong association' between soft drinks consumption and the disease even after adjusting the data to take account of these other factors. But the authors also acknowledged that there was a lack of real evidence to support their claims. 'Women who increased their sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption also increased energy intake from other foods, indicating that these beverages may even induce hunger and food intake,' they said. 'However, experimental data on soft drink consumption and food intake have not provided support for this hypothesis. Our observation may, therefore, rather reflect dietary and lifestyle changes accompanying changes in soft drink consumption.' They also added that imprecise measurements, the observational nature of the study, and the reliance on self-reporting of body weight by the study participants could also have skewed the results. The soft drinks industry, not surprisingly, has accused the researchers of unfairly singling it out, stressing that the scientists themselves had acknowledged that other factors could be responsible for the rising diabetes levels. 'It is scientifically indefensible to blame any one food or beverage for increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, a disease which is commonly known to have multiple causes and risk factors,' said the US National Soft Drinks Association in an angry statement published yesterday. 'This interpretation of the results reflects neither reality nor even this study's own results. In addition to soft drinks, this study found significant correlations between low cereal fibre intake, low protein intake, low magnesium intake, smoking, low physical activity, increased total caloric consumption and type 2 diabetes.' 'A careful reading of the paper reveals that it was an unhealthy lifestyle, not consumption of a particular food or beverage, that increased the women's risk for type 2 diabetes.' Tellingly, the NSDA pointed out, the Harvard study showed little difference between increased sugared soft drink intake and diabetes and increased intake of diet soft drinks and the disease. 'There is no reasonable scientific basis for any association between diet soft drink consumption and either weight gain or obesity,' the association said. 'The lack of difference between regular and diet soft drinks brings into question the validity of the analytical methods used in the current report.' The association also took umbrage at the suggestion that rising soft drink consumption among both children and adults was a bad thing. Much of the increase in sales in recent years came from diet soft drinks, water and sports drinks, it said, citing data from Beverage Digest: diet drink sales were up 6.3 per cent last year, water was up 21.5 per cent and sports drinks (which have less sugar and fewer calories than regular soft drinks) were up 17.9 per cent. Consumer groups also criticised the findings - or at least the interpretation of them. The Center for Consumer Freedom, a non-profit coalition supported by restaurants, food companies and consumers, said that the authors had taken 'a great leap to suggest a causal relationship between soda consumption and type 2 diabetes', pointing out that the data reported in the study showed no clear link between soft drink consumption and diabetes. Instead, the group claimed, the researchers had suggested causality between soft drinks and diabetes because they had a particular axe to grind. Several of the authors of the Harvard study had close ties to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which it described as 'an activist group leading the nation's anti-soda crusade'. 'This report is the latest effort to use fizzy research to scare Americans over nothing,' said Center for Consumer Freedom executive director Rick Berman. 'The fact that the authors completely sidestep their own data that shows soda consumption has nothing to do with diabetes in the vast majority of women demonstrates that there is a biased agenda at work here by dietary Puritans.'
• Spiked Energy Drinks Dangerous Mixing alcohol with energy drinks is a popular but dangerous habit among U.S. college students, according to new research that found those who combine the two tend to drink more, take more risks and are more likely to get hurt while drinking. The research, by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, found students who mix energy drinks with alcohol were twice as likely to be injured during a bout of drinking, to need medical attention or to ride with a driver who was drunk. 'So you're drunk. But you just don't know that you're drunk.'—Dr. Mary Claire O'Brien, researcher They were also twice as likely to take advantage of someone sexually and nearly twice as likely to be taken advantage of sexually by someone else. The researchers believe the problem is the high caffeine levels in the energy drinks mask the effects of excess alcohol — the stumbling, slurred speech or sleepiness that signal intoxication.
• Straight From The Doc Important: A Warning on Energy Drinks Filed in archive News by Gloria Gamat on November 02, 2006 energy_drinks.jpg Energy drinks should not be used to quench thirst or replenish liquid when exercising. More importantly, energy drinks should NOT be mixed with alcohol. According to Nutritionists: ...the drinks, laden with caffeine and sugar, can hook kids on an unhealthy jolt-and-crash cycle. The caffeine comes from multiple sources, making it hard to tell how much the drinks contain. Some have B vitamins, which when taken in megadoses can cause rapid heartbeat, and numbness and tingling in the hands and feet. Think twice about drinking energy drinks like Red Bull (founded by Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz), Monster (produced by Corona, Calif.-based Hansen Natural Corp.) and Rockstar (distributed by Coca-Cola Co., and made by Las Vegas-based Rockstar Inc.) on a daily basis. More importantly, DON'T allow your kids to drink them daily. Read this Yahoo News for a comprehensive review.
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• Amish Youth Rarely Overweight A new investigation of a rural, Old Order Amish community shows Amish children have higher physical activity levels and lower rates of obesity when compared to children living in a modern, industrialized society. The study offers a compelling look at the prevalence of childhood obesity among children who, by lifestyle, are more active and do not utilize modern technology, including television, video games, or computers. The study is published in the March issue of Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise®, the official scientific journal of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). 'This Old Order Amish community provides a glimpse at what may be possible, even required, if physical activity were not engineered out of so many daily tasks,' said David R. Bassett, Jr., Ph.D., FACSM, the study's lead author. 'Based on our results, it's fair to say that advances in modern technology are contributing to the current obesity epidemic. Although it would be impractical to mimic the Amish lifestyle, this study suggests that increased levels of physical activity could mitigate some of the health problems caused by sedentary habits.' Like a previous study on Amish adults, 139 children and adolescents (6-18 years of age) in a southern Ontario farming community wore sealed step counters and logged their physical activities for seven days. Body mass index was computed for each child, using their measured height and weight. Children were told not to modify their activities, and also were asked to record several activities they had participated in that day.
• Behaviours In Youth Computer-tailored health education may be especially suited to address complicated health-related behaviors such as diet and physical activity (PA). These behaviors are associated with the most prominent public health issues of today: overweight and obesity and thus with type 2 diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, certain cancers. Furthermore, web-based computer-tailored health education mat best appeal to the -Internet generation-, i.e. younger people, including children and adolescents. Diet and physical activity patterns are established in childhood and adolescence and healthy habits should therefore be encouraged in young people. Although a number of computer-tailored PA and diet modules have been developed for young people in recent years, these have not been tested as such for this population. The present application proposes to test the effectiveness of a web-based computer-tailored weight maintenance intervention aimed at 12-14 year olds based on an integration and adaptation of existing computer-tailored modules. Further, we will test this application in a real-life implementation environment, i.e. in the context of routine preventive youth health monitoring and care, i.e. the Rotterdam GGD school health system that includes the Youth (health) Monitor.
• HarryPotterBullyVincentCrabbe TEENAGE Harry Potter star Jamie Waylett is today exposed as a sordid cocaine user. Shocking photos show the 17-year-old actor, schoolboy bully Vincent Crabbe in the hit movies, sniffing a fat 'line' of coke. He is said to take the illegal Class A drug at wild parties. The podgy millionaire has also invited STRIPPERS back to his flat. The pictures - filmed by the pal on a mobile phone - show shameless Waylett: SNORTING coke through a tightly rolled-up £10 note off a friend’s coffee table. LEANING over to hoover up every last grain of the drug. SMIRKING as the white powder kicks in and apparently revelling in its affect on his brain. The People can also reveal that out-of-control Waylett has SMOKED marijuana joints and BRAGGED about getting high at a Harry Potter film premiere. Roles in four Potter films have made him big money and he is currently filming the fifth in the series, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. But the friend, who captured the squalid night at a pal’s wild party in North London just two weeks ago, said: 'Jamie is spiralling out of control. 'He takes cocaine almost every time I see him, whether it’s at a party at a friend’s house or at his own home. He’s a lways chopping out a line. 'If he runs out, people can get it easily for him. I dread to think what it’s costing him. But if I was to guess I’d say he’s spending hundreds of pounds a week on it.
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