Energy drinks: death in a can?

You need energy for everything you do, from doing your job, to having s.e.x., to walking down the street. But drinking an energy drink to increase your energy just might send you to the emergency room. This isn’t just my opinion, it was reported on a government health website, which reports an increase in ER visits due to energy drink consumption: (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_133134.html). And energy drinks might do more than send you to the ER. Can caffeine kill? November 2000.  An 18-year-old student drank three Red Bull energy drinks before a basketball game and died during the match. The medical examiner found that he had abnormally thick heart wall, but nobody took it seriously and investigated further. December 2011.  A 14-year-old girl tried to get more energy from energy drinks.  She drank two drinks within a 24-hour period.  She suddenly developed cardiac arrhythmia and died.   An attempt was made to get the FDA to regulate or ban energy drinks. The attempt failed. (http://thehill.com/images/stories/blogs/flooraction/jan2012/durbinfda.pdf). Concerns about energy drinks continued to rise. But energy drink manufacturers fought back, claiming that so-called energy drink-related deaths were in fact related to underlying medical conditions, not to energy drink consumption.  Their logic? An energy drink on average contains the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee. Nobody should die because of 2 or 3 cups of coffee. But it seems that t...
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