Monday, January 28, 2013

Alcohol, Caffeine May Be Risky Mix | Redux

Alcohol, Caffeine May Be Risky Mix

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If you're thinking about using energy drinks to stay up into the wee hours to welcome in the New Year, take care. The whopping caffeine dose and other additives in those drinks may be more harmful than you think. "Unintentional caffeine overdoses have resulted in serious illness and rare deaths from caffeine poisoning," says Dr. Kent A. Sepkowitz a physician at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York, in an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Caffeine poisoning has only recently been characterized." Considered "dietary supplements" by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, energy drinks do not have to conform to the same regulations as traditional caffeinated sodas or over-the-counter caffeine pills. The same additives that give energy drinks their special status may also interfere with the body's ability to metabolize caffeine. This could lead to increased or prolonged levels of caffeine in the blood.

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Dr. Kent A. Sepkowitz

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-0.134301"Unintentional caffeine overdoses have resulted in serious illness and rare deaths from caffeine poisoning," says Dr. Kent A. Sepkowitz ...
0"Unintentional caffeine overdoses have resulted in serious illness and rare deaths from caffeine poisoning," says Dr. Kent A. Sepkowitz a physician at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York, in an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Caffeine poisoning has only recently been characterized."
-0.0942097"The swift change in public perception of energy drinks from harmless mild stimulant to lethal, unregulated drug is unprecedented," said Sepkowitz ...
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Jonathan Howland

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Drug: caffeine

Overall Sentiment: -0.206283

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