Should emergency rooms track the number of people who get hurt
or sick after drinking coffee? That's what the maker of Monster Energy drinks
suggests in response to a recent report that emergency room visits involving
caffeine-laced energy drinks doubled from 2007 to 2011.
The energy drink maker took issue with the report,
pointing out that there was no evidence in the federal government's survey that
energy drinks caused the patients' health problems — and that energy drinks
aren't the only way to slug caffeine.
"The report did not even look at ER visits associated with
coffee consumption and could not say whether people who had consumed
significant quantities of caffeine from coffee or other sources do not likewise
visit the ER," Monster Beverage Corp. said in a statement.
As we've reported recently, young people are drinking more coffee
for the extra jolt these days.
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