Should There be an Age Law for Energy Drinks?

[thehoodedsmack]

That's a misleading statement. Nobody has ever "OD'ed on water". Death by an overfilled bladder can be accomplished with any liquid. If you replace the substance and retain the symptom, it's not that substance's fault. Energy drinks contain ingredients which are demonstrably harmful. Your post suggests a situation where people are aware of those dangers, but the issue at hand has more to do with the kind of situation I've detailed below:

The inverse dilemma, is a situation wherein parents simply don't know the dangers of excessive energy drink consumption, and see no problem with letting their child drink two or three a day. The child's well-being shouldn't be ignored due to the ignorance of the parent.

Prohibition of a substance has never been a successful strategy, so we can ignore that option. If it can be found that there is a stage in child development where energy drink consumption elicits a noticeably adverse effect, then you have a case for an age limitation based on that upper-range. But regardless of whether such a limitation can be implemented, what must be pursued is a public campaign of awareness, so that people do know the harmful effects energy drinks can have on the body.

[=sw=warlord]

That's a misleading statement. Nobody has ever "OD'ed on water".

*AHEM*
you appear to have a knack for using some rather bad statements without first checking up on the facts.

[thehoodedsmack]

*AHEM*
you appear to have a knack for using some rather bad statements without first checking up on the facts.

Water intoxication, also known as water poisoning, also known as dilutional hyponatremia , is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits (e.g., hyponatremia) by overhydration, i.e., over-consumption of water.

Death by an overfilled bladder can be accomplished with any liquid. If you replace the substance and retain the symptom, it's not that substance's fault.

You don't appear to have a knack for reading comprehension?

Don't even follow this up. You're wrong, everyone can see it, but there's nothing wrong with that. It happens. Let's move on.

[=sw=warlord]

So somehow overdosing on water isn't over dosing on water in your eyes?
alright.

[DarkHalo003]

In comparison, Energy Drinks damage the body quicker and more differently than water. At the same time, trying to drown yourself by drinking water would require ridiculous control over your body's muscles. You'd literally have to hold your bladder until it burst or do nothing except drink gallons water every day. Basically, it'd have to be close to a death wish. Sure it happens on accident, but usually there is a disease behind it causing the compelled need for so much water. The problem with Energy Drinks is that you don't even need to do that to achieve extreme issues with your bladder/body. Really, if you drink Energy Drinks as much as your supposed to drink water per day to be healthy, then you're going to be in serious complications down the road. That is the difference.

[rossmum]

You don't appear to have a knack for reading comprehension?

Don't even follow this up. You're wrong, everyone can see it, but there's nothing wrong with that. It happens. Let's move on.

It is apparently you who needs to brush up on reading comprehension, since throwing out important chemical balances critical to biological function is not even vaguely similar to "death by an overfilled bladder". Your bladder could be empty for all the difference it makes; if you take in too much water, particularly without taking in any salt, you will die.

It is a regularly observable occurrence any time someone is rescued from an environment where they were dehydrated and/or starving and immediately hoes into as much water as they can, as quickly as they can. It was pretty fucking common among concentration camp victims, as was the other side of the coin where they ate themselves to death (at that point even a meagre amount of food by normal standards would do it).

If you are going to make sweeping claims about the dangers of overconsumption (or, as you seem to think, the lack thereof), consider actually doing some quick fact-checking first to ensure you aren't completely fucking wrong.

[rossmum]

Also this thread is stupid since you should be attacking the basic issues of individual ingredients rather than energy drinks specifically. There are a lot more things that are bad for you than energy drinks, and in most of the civilised world, there are some kind of standards to either heavily restrict or totally ban use of them. Apparently though people aren't down with the FDA keepin' a man down. Man, imagine how bad this problem would be without that federal agency to ensure nobody ends up putting carcinogenic plastic by-products into your milk.

[DarkHalo003]

Also this thread is stupid since you should be attacking the basic issues of individual ingredients rather than energy drinks specifically. There are a lot more things that are bad for you than energy drinks, and in most of the civilised world, there are some kind of standards to either heavily restrict or totally ban use of them. Apparently though people aren't down with the FDA keepin' a man down. Man, imagine how bad this problem would be without that federal agency to ensure nobody ends up putting carcinogenic plastic by-products into your milk.

Unless you want to make that a part of the thread, that's a-whole-nother issue. For one, corporations in general lie completely when they put most of their stuff on the label for reading. Also, Diet drinks carry an endocrine disruptor that has been proven bad for your health beyond just the regular studies and does not really accomplish its diet function. In reality, just makes you gain more weight. Yet that chemical known as Aspartame continues to exist.

[PopeAK49]

Also this thread is stupid since you should be attacking the basic issues of individual ingredients rather than energy drinks specifically. There are a lot more things that are bad for you than energy drinks, and in most of the civilised world, there are some kind of standards to either heavily restrict or totally ban use of them. Apparently though people aren't down with the FDA keepin' a man down. Man, imagine how bad this problem would be without that federal agency to ensure nobody ends up putting carcinogenic plastic by-products into your milk.

Wow, you really think that I would go that in depth with my topical choice with only 30 seconds to choose a topic? You guys take shit way to seriously when I only needed some basic opinions for a simple paper.

Quit using ignorant words.

Edit: Rossmum, using multiple accounts to vote 'no' is not helping.

[sleepy1212]

Every time I see someone wearing a flat-billed hat with a giant Monster logo on it chugging down an industrial size can of energy drink I secretly hope the ingredients kick in all at once and he runs into traffic. Which brings me to the point:

Why don't we just "ban" the people who drink energy drinks?

Yup, i'm a hater.