Wait Mr Nerd...sometimes I am at odds with your subject matter, and I know you won't mind me asking bc you also know I too am here to learn...but energy drinks?! I get you are "undoing crappy journalism" here as the main untangle - which in a silo is true...however... 1.
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Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK and
there is evidence these drinks can result in a psychotic episode for teenagers with and without a history of mental illness, without alcohol - this work dates back here in Melbourne to the early 2000s at
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the thing is, your critique kind of neutralises the [entire body of evidence] on adverse outcomes from Energy drinks because of one poorly-written piece of representative science... I guess what I am saying is, for some these bevs can be "poison" 3.
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and while us as translating scientists may see "poison" as pharmacologically incorrect, we also know "one mans poison is another mans pleasure". 4.
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If a drink can trigger even one psychotic episode in an unsuspecting teenager, balanced against nutritional value of the drink i.e its positive contribution to our food supply, why take the edge off its negative public positioning? 5.
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Particularly where there is so many other topics to cover! What to do about peer review? Why the need for all these "translational research" centres? The epi of what to eat and the dominance of white-people science? 6.
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It's not a bad point. I guess the main issue for me isn't whether energy drinks are bad at all, but whether they are worse than commonly accepted risks like coffee
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Demonizing them based on the fact that a tiny percentage of people report seizures - for example - is a bit problematic unless we are willing to talk about the negative health problems associated with lots of daily activities
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Not that we shouldn't be doing that, but I find it infuriating that people are happy to get angry about energy drinks when really they are ~probably~ not much worse than a multivitamin in a double-shot latte (because that's 90% of what they are)
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I’ll agree with that in principle. We’ve got to save our anger for the big ones tho. Like corporate infiltration of generations of dietitians so much so we can’t even see it anymore! Shoosh now, reading your essay
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Haha the essay isn't written yet! It was a grant this year, it will be out later this year
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