{"id":10953,"date":"2019-04-13T07:53:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2022-06-18T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:52:29","slug":"stupid-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/?p=10953","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Intake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sugar Alert \u2013 Stupid\nIntake <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean L. Jones,\nC.P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marketed as an energy drink, the colorful fruity\nlooking can called Four Loko has built a considerable reputation being the\nultimate caffeinated alcohol combination.&nbsp;\nThe heavy caffeine and guarana gives it the kick to place it in the\nenergy category.&nbsp; Sadly, quite a growing number\nof young people are drinking this concoction that produces blackouts and\nabsolute inebriation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number four in the product\u2019s name\nreferences caffeine, taurine, guarana and&nbsp;wormwood.&nbsp; The most popular purchase is the large\n23.5-ounce aluminum can with a walloping 660 calories.&nbsp; There is zero fat, no fiber or protein and\ncontains 60-grams of sugar.&nbsp; The\nmaking of it for European countries contains absinthe, unlike the United States\nversion is a malt liquor, rather a spirit-based drink.&nbsp; The ingredient guarana comes from nature with\nlarge leaves and clusters of flowers, generally gets attention for its fruit,\nwhich is about the size of a coffee bean.&nbsp;\nAs a dietary supplement, guarana is an energy booster, containing about\ntwice the caffeine found in coffee beans.&nbsp;\nConsequently, this drink will over pump the heart for a sustained\nperiod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the kind of product that if you are\nwaiting for the federal government to intervene with some sort of ban or caution\nlabel requirements [generally recognized as safe], you had better not hold your\nbreath.&nbsp; The revenue from sales is enormously\nhigh and that means money for effective lobbying is comprehensive.&nbsp; The federal government has addressed the\nmanufacturers of energy drinks to provide proof that adding alcohol\nintentionally does not pose dangerous health concerns.&nbsp; The federal government\u2019s level of work here demonstrates\nhow ludicrous their foods and beverages oversight operates; since the\nreintroduction of legal alcohol after prohibition clearly stated that alcohol has\nhealth dangers and intoxicating effects from high alcohol content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local stores trick consumers by placing the product amongst the other brightly-designed  where it\u2019s easily mistaken for iced tea or fruit punch, which is referred to the alcopop section. \u00a0It has more alcohol than four beers, but is not part of this section of the store as consumers become hoodwinked yet once again.\u00a0 Even though Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, manufacturers of similar drinks Tilt and Sparks, are reformulating their drinks, there is no word about changing the colorful packaging to look like a soft drink. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ingredient taurine\nis interesting because its application helps to penetrate the blood-brain\nbarrier and has been implicated in a wide array of physiological phenomena\nincluding the possible prevention of obesity and epileptic seizures.&nbsp; It also acts as an antioxidant and protects\nagainst toxicity of various substances such as lead and cadmium.&nbsp; Taurine has also been shown to help people\nwith congestive heart failure by increasing the force and effectiveness of\nheart-muscle contractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the cell, taurine\nkeeps potassium and magnesium inside the cell while keeping excessive sodium\nout. In this sense, it works like a diuretic. Because it aids the movement of\npotassium, sodium, and calcium in and out of the cell, taurine has been used as\na supplementation for epileptics as well as for people who have uncontrollable\nfacial twitches and skin aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8212; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/Www.SugarAlert.com\"><em>Www.SugarAlert.com<\/em><\/a><em> &#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dean L. Jones is a marketing strategist\nwith the Southland Partnership Corporation, a public benefit organization.&nbsp; He has published a series of consumer alert\narticles based on his view of barefaced mismanagement of food\/beverage\nproducts.<\/em>\n\n\n\n\n\nn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar Alert \u2013 Stupid Intake Dean L. Jones, C.P.M. 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