{"id":716,"date":"2013-03-04T21:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T21:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2019-11-12T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:30:00","slug":"716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"energy drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the early nineties when JOLT Cola came out?<\/em><\/p>\n

It was one of those jokey products you would take to a party and (preposterously) dare your friends to drink. Products that were good for a laugh because they were an exaggeration of things we already had or had and didn’t need or couldn’t possibly imagine needing.<\/em><\/p>\n

But look at us now. Joke’s over, because someone, somewhere in our consumer nation has evolved (or is it \u00a0de-volved) that cola into the super-hype, must-have \u00a0‘5 HOUR ENERGY’.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"5<\/a>‘5 HOUR ENERGY’ \u00a0is everywhere! <\/em><\/p>\n

It is (according to the hype), just what you need if you’re looking for the quick and simple energy to get you (a hard working employee\/student\/parent) through the day. <\/em><\/p>\n

You’ll get everything done, and you’ll get it done with all the alert attention it deserves. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If you drink ‘5 HOUR ENERGY, \u00a0you will truly be a hard worker <\/strong>(because that’s who it’s made for). \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a taste of \u00a0the sales blurb from 5hourenergy.com,<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Made for hard working people<\/em>\n\nFinding the energy for work and family responsibilities is hard enough. Throw in a second job, go back to school, or simply have a sleepless night, and you\u2019re bound to hit the wall. So what do you do? Run for the coffee? Grab a soda? But how long does that last before you need more? Try this instead \u2013 take one\u00a05-hour ENERGY\u00ae shot<\/a>. It\u2019s quick, simple, and made to help hard working people.\"<\/em><\/pre>\n
Whew. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
Now that is as Hard Working as it gets. <\/em><\/p>\n
Drinking a drink. Capital H, hard.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
But what about this- ?<\/i><\/p>\n
What about\u00a0the reported 13 (plus) deaths<\/a>\u00a0 resulting from your 5 HOUR ENERGY brew?<\/em><\/p>\n
What about\u00a0the out-and-out deception of calling it a HEALTH FOOD, encouraged (for example) by regulation of small container energy shots in Canada as Natural Health Products?<\/em><\/p>\n
This is insanity. <\/em><\/p>\n
I GET that sometimes it feels as though there are just not enough hours in the day. <\/em><\/p>\n
But, COME ON !<\/em><\/p>\n
It’s time for a reset. Time to slow down, look around and think. <\/em><\/p>\n
It’s time to start asking questions. It’s time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Remember the early nineties when JOLT Cola came out? It was one of those jokey products you would take to a party and (preposterously) dare your friends to drink. Products that were good for a laugh because they were an exaggeration of things we already had or had and didn’t need or couldn’t possibly imagine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[413,418,416,415,414,412,417],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-ideas","tag-5-hour-energy","tag-5-hour-energy-shot","tag-caffeine-drinks","tag-deaths-from-caffeine-drinks","tag-hard-worker","tag-jolt-cola","tag-natural-health-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}