LOL
According to the lawsuit, one 12-fluid-ounce can of an Alani Nu Energy Drink contains 200 milligrams of caffeine.
I feel terribly for this family. I can’t see how this lawsuit is going to move forward in their favor. There were warnings that this beverage isn’t intended for children and 200mg of caffeine isn’t a crazy amount.
The attorney added that it was “common” for Rodriguez to drink an Alani Nu product at school or before sports activities. At one point, she was drinking as many as one energy drink per day and even posted about the product herself.
She consumed these regularly, and her parents allowed it to happen. I feel so sorry for them, but come on.
And that’s still not a lot, I know many people that consume 400 - 600mg of caffeine a day. I sometimes have 6 - 8 espresso shots a day myself.
Are they teens?
Ingredients: Carbonated Water, Citric Acid, Taurine, Sodium Citrate, L-Theanine, Caffeine, Sucralose, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Gum Arabic, L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, Panax Ginseng Root Extract, Acesulfame Potassium, Niacinamide (Vitamin B-3), Inositol, Glucuronolactone, D-Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Salt, Natural Flavor, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Guarana Seed Extract, D-Biotin, Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B-12).
a lot of those ingredients aren’t in coffee
Who said anything about coffee?
several people, that’s who.
ACTUAL point is, there’s a lot of things in there other than caffeine, come onAgain, who is saying anything about coffee? Energy drinks are their own thing. This article was about a lawsuit over energy drinks.
several people compared it’s caffeine content to coffee, try to keep up
Show me an example, in this thread, where coffee was mentioned.
try to keep up
I’m trying, but it seems that you are having conversations with yourself, so I’m a bit out of the loop.
it is if you arnt tolerant of it yet.
I drink like 5 cups of coffee a day, which is about 200mg of caffeine per cup. This post may have saved my life, if I’d done it another 20 years who knows what would happen.
At one point, she was drinking as many as one energy drink per day and even posted about the product herself
As many as one a day? Unless it had goofy caffeine, c’mon.
EDIT:
Per https://www.alaninu.com/products/energy-drink-breezeberry
CONTAINS: 200mg of caffeine per 12 fl oz serving.
Per https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-beans-how-much-caffeine-too-much
coffee, regular brewed non-specialty - 113 to 247 milligrams
So if she had a Starbucks habit she could have potentially been doing just as much caffeine in a given day.
Oh no, a beauty queen?! Is no one safe?!?! /s
A young person died, why is it important that she was pretty?
who determines if she’s pretty?
I get US peasants think some bimbo with a shit ton of make up and yellow colored hair is pretty.I think there is an implicit yet fairly clear hierarchy of whose lives matter most in the media and in society as a whole.
It matters that she’s pretty because that makes it more tragic, apparently. It wouldn’t be news if it was a homeless man.
The next best thing to blood and gore: conventional attractiveness.
There’s another aspect to it though.
“Teen dies” tells you nothing about said teen in the headline
A lot of journalists will use some kind of shorthand descriptor like that to give the person the article is about a gloss of humanity.
That they picked beauty queen is only pointless if she weren’t involved I pageants, which is what the term usually refers to. Didn’t read the article (and don’t plan to), so I don’t know if that’s the case here. But picking something publicly known about the subject is an article is standard, and has the benefit of connecting most readers to the humanity of an article.
Adjectives alone help, but a link to something a person is “known” for is better.
sex and tragedy sells unfortunately
Well, death is always sad, but what do you expect to happen from the overdose of any chemical substance? Another thing is, though, manufacturer has some shady moments about marketing and completeness of ingredient list, judging by this article.
