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CAFFEINE AND CARBONATED DRINKS

Caffeine may be the most abused drug of all in America. Caffeine drinks are advertised in a way to attract young people, even children. One hundred milligram doses of caffeine may go into soft drinks without any caution labels! However, the same dose of caffeine that goes into any over-the-counter drug must carry the government's "warning label" stating that this particular product should possibly not be given to children under the age of twelve!

Consequently, caffeine has become America's legal recreational drug and it is being peddled by soft drink companies to young people and children, and no one really seems to be complaining much about it. Not even the U.S. government seems to speak up much about what soft drinks overloaded with caffeine may possibly be doing to those who consume too much.

Just try weaning a caffeine dependent child off caffeine and you may discover he has trouble concentrating, the child may become irritable as well as experience headaches and other grown-up, adult-type maladies!

Carbonated drinks, on the other hand, can be used to melt acid deposits off the battery terminal posts in your car as well as clean most any kind of spot off your carpet, including blood! Is it any wonder why our vital organs may possibly wear out faster living in westernized countries compared to Far Eastern countries?

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CBS-TV 48 HOURS 4/17/97

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