make mine a large one
Many of you will know I love unearthing obscure, irrelevant and blatantly obvious medical research and here’s one, featured in The Independent, which highlights that the frequent consumption of energy drinks may increase the risk of alcohol dependency.
Scientists at the University of Maryland believe the link between the two is because of the way heavily caffeinated energy drinks mask the effects of a nice warm pint in your lovely local hostelry. Research highlighted these drinks of choice, especially popular among cyclists, runners, squash players and triathletes, oh, and young people standing on street corners and of course revising students, are often combined with alcohol, primarily spirits. That’d account for Jonathan’s crazy lines through most corners. And for years I’ve always thought the infamous youtube ‘Ironman crawl’ of Sian Welch and Wendy Ingraham was because they’d hit the wall but now I realise it was because they were blitzed out of their minds on Gin & Gatorade – watch it again with a different perspective!
The study of a thousand students, essential to the future wellbeing of mankind, showed that those who consumed energy drinks at least once a week were more likely to get drunk at an early age, consume more alcohol per drinking session and develop alcohol dependence. One a week? On a good day I’ll do two a session and I could have provided those conclusions for the price of a free pint!
