
A study printed in the Journal of American College Health puts forth the notion that drinking heady energy drinks is a predictor of risk-taking behavior among the college crowd. The most interesting part of the study found that people who drank cocktails made with the energy drinks would get about twice as drunk as people who imbibe Cran Vodkas and beer. A friend of mine is a middle school principal, and he said one of his students drank so many energy drinks that he went a-fib and his heart started wigging out. Of course, the people who conducted the study are the same ones who declared that binge drinking leads to risky behavior and other obvious facts, but this study means that parents are going to start checking between their kids’ toes for track marks if they see them pounding Red Bulls. My guess is that these guys would still be throwing 32oz bottles of beer into bars whether or not they drank 10 cans of Red Bull—and it’s more of a testament to the ingenious branding of the energy drinks. It’s not like they created the Toxic Jocks, they just gave them a cocktail to rally around. Let me SAT this for you younger guys: Guinness is to Ireland as Red Bull is to Frats.
via Outside