Do you enjoy energy drinks like Red Bull, and Sports drinks with high caffeine content? If you drink them, you should be aware of what they might be doing to your body. Watch this amazing video, found on John Liming’s blog!
Do you enjoy energy drinks like Red Bull, and Sports drinks with high caffeine content? If you drink them, you should be aware of what they might be doing to your body. Watch this amazing video, found on John Liming’s blog!
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Terrible! We once gave our last cat dog food, with taurine. This is also included in these energy drinks. You should have seen how bright awake he was. All of a sudden he just wanted this food. Michael
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Ah yes. Hyper-activity, even for cats! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Lol. We dont gave him more. It was to much stress for us (too). 😉 I apologize for the late revisit, Pete! Hope you had a wonderful week ahead. Michael
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I have always been wary of theses drinks-but apparently, I should have been even scared! Never had one and never will- thank you-
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Thanks, Michele. Even if everything shown in the video isn’t 100% true, there is no denying that such drinks can be very harmful.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’ve seen this and I am guilty of drinking them but seeing it again freaks me out!😰 Thanks for sharing this post, Pete.💜💚
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Thanks, honey. I think you are better off with strong coffee. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. xx
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I have taken this advice and haven’t had one since!😀
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I usually have one or two ginger ale drinks in case someone feels ill, but that’s it for carbonated drinks. I steer clear of caffeine as much as possible, so I would never have these drinks in my home. I must say, though, Pete, some of these experiments do not look plausible to me. I will be watching to see the results of Elizabeth’s tests. (I know hubby has often used a coke to clean the battery terminals on a car, though.)
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I have no doubt that much of what we are seeing in the video is very clever ‘tricks’. However, it is still fun to watch, and if it helps to warn people off of those (proven to be) dangerous drinks, that’s okay by me.
Leave a very old coin in a drink like this, or coke, overnight, and it is bright and shiny the next day. You can also use sodas to clean a toilet, so there has to be something worrying about them, surely? 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Exactly. Let’s face it, the are all full of chemicals.
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Of course, Pete. My late father commented that Coke had Baker’s soldering fluid in it…..
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I knew that at one time it actually contained Cocaine, but I didn’t know about soldering fluid!
Best wishes, Pete.
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My energy drink is coffee…..cannot be beat..chuq
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Glad to hear it, chuq. I never imagined you were one for ‘sports drinks’ anyway.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m really mostly a water drinker. These drinks just seem like random chemical explosions to me but the teenagers that go to the college where Mr O works love them!
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I fear that consumption of those drinks may well be one of those ‘ticking time bombs’ that will come back to haunt those young people.
Thanks, Abbi.
Best wishes, Pete.
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BTW, even when sweetener-free, these drinks cause Diabetes. The carbon content converts into carbs
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Mixed with the food we eat, carbonized drinks are a big cause of obesity and stomach issues. According to Ayurveda, these are slow poison. Imagine, you can clean a toilet to sparkle if you pour your favourite Cola or Pepsi, a feat that usually requires Acid. What it must do our system when absorbed with blood
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Yes indeed. And the effect that they have on teeth, as a can of any soft drink (except sugar free) contains a huge percentage of sugar.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I lost track of how many WTF moments I had while watching this video (especially the flexible hammer!). I’ve never tasted an energy drink, and doubt I ever will.
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I tried the most popular one here, Red Bull. But it was so sweet, I couldn’t finish it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I read somewhere about the harmful effects of energy drinks. We never buy those. Soft drinks….ah, occasionally too!
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It seems young people here continue to ignore those warnings, Arlene.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Diet Coke gave me crashing headaches more than 10 years ago. I quit drinking all carbonated stuff then. Never tried monster, Red Bull, any of those. Just water, tea, coffee drinker anymore.
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You have a new gravatar image. 🙂
I sometimes drink ‘Pepsi Max’, which is a sugar-free cola. But only when it is very hot outside. I once tried some ‘Red Bull’, and found it overwhelmingly sweet. The bottom line is that those ‘energy drinks’ are just plain dangerous.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I do! Nice of you to notice.
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I can’t thank you enough. Tomorrow we are having the grandkids for the afternoon and they love this stuff. We will try as many as we can.
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Better to try these ‘tricks’ than to drink the stuff in the cans. 🙂
Best wishes, Pet.
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I hate to share that my grandson took one look at the video and told me it was magic not reality. He said,”You don’t watch enough You Tube, Amma(my name)”
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I was aware that the man was a magician, but I still think it brought home the reality that those drinks are full of chemicals. And the tricks are great!
Thanks, Elizabeth.
Best wishes, Pete. 🙂
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I guess I was the only one who got snookered!
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I also thought it was 100% true, when I saw it on John’s blog. But I looked up the name much later, after I reblogged the post. I decided not to take down the post, due to the ‘message’ about the chemicals in those drinks.
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Well we loved watching the tricks and I saved the money I would have spent on Red Bull.
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I had heard that energy drinks are only good for athletes in heavy workouts – otherwise we’re to stay away from them.
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After watching that video,, I would advise athletes to avoid them too, GP.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I steer clear of them Pete.
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With your history of migraines, Kim, I think that is very sensible. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Never touch ’em, Pete. I’ve had concerns about my heart latterly [luckily, nothing worrisome to date] so I don’t want to subject it to undue strain! I do risk a ‘normal’ coffee occasionally, but most of the time, both my coffee & tea are decaffeinated. Cheers, Jon.
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I have full-caffeine instant coffee, around 3-4 cups a day. But I prefer to stick to red wine, as it is (mostly) ‘natural’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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YIKES! 🙂
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It’s worthy of a Yikes, Frank. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I hope there is no study (clip) of the sugar-free, caffeine-free, stuff I infuse with freeze-dried raspberries. Warmest regards, Theo
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I am sure that your ‘bathtub raspberry gin’ is perfectly safe, Theo. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete
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Hmm I clicked on the view original post and whilst I can see the post and all the comments, there is no video, some gremlin in the works methinks.
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That’s strange. I just tried it again and it worked. Mary could see it too, and Stevie.
Have another go later, it’s not long, and quite interesting. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete
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Just seen it, good set of chemical reactions, love the portable bread 🤣
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A handy way to carry a snack, I agree. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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That’s astonishing and terrifying. Glad I don’t drink it.
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Me too, Mary. I’m sticking with red wine. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Me too!
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Thank goodness I never drink the stuff!
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Me neither, Stevie. I have read about it causing deaths here, when consumed to excess.
Best wishes, Pete.
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