Comments on: Energy Drink Effects Proven False?

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:25:26 +0000

Does your 12 year old even know how to take blood pressure? Or for that matter did they do it right? I am a sophmore high school student and alredy I already have 7 collage credits. I’m learning to be in the Medical field and I can tell you that your so called ‘Proof’ is wrong. I also did a study about Monster Energy and blood pressure and my compared to resting blood pressure it absolutely sky rocketed. I got an A and it got signed off by the collage rep. that checked all of our posters. So in conclusion, your child’s project was wrong.

By: Allie

Allie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:38:32 +0000

monster may, or may not have an effect,but it deffinately makes you have to pee…alot. who in their right mind would publish a 12 yr. olds science project?

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:58:24 +0000

“These effects have been borne out by research that shows that caffeine use (whether in tablet form or not) results in decreased fatigue and increased attentiveness.”

THERE YA GO LITTLE KID, CONTRADICTED!

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:08:19 +0000

Opinions on Monster vary a lot from person to person. I love the taste of original Monster and every other drink they have made (with the exception of MXXD). They are definitely the most innovative and unique (the whole nitrous line). I agree that the story is completely ridiculous. It doesn’t matter how well researched a study is, it can’t disprove an obvious fact.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:30:58 +0000

Although it’s not true, I’m glad Monster is getting knocked down a few notches. I personally don’t find their taste appealing, and am sick of everyone raving about them. Couple that with how a**hole-ish they are about their trademarks, and you’ve got one obnoxious brand. But I agree with EpicWins, the medical and news community is definitely grasping for straws to fight energy drinks. Sorry, conservative PTAs of the world, no increased blood pressure here! Maybe now all these suburban politicians can stop scapegoating energy drinks in an effort to cover up what they’re NOT doing to combat the real problems like drugs, violence, and alcohol in schools.

By: 3ntropy

3ntropy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:50:33 +0000

Apart from how ludicrous this in every way, how about this:

“At the very least, he expected the energy drinks would raise an athlete’s blood pressure or heart rate, but that didn’t happen”

A +1 for us.

P.S do ‘respected journals’ have odd spot columns?
Or perhaps it was ‘take your kids science project and have it published day’ at work.

By: edjunkie

edjunkie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:53:13 +0000

My daughter did a science fair project on energy drinks and blood pressure. The conclusion was that blood pressure was not affected by Monster. I did not post it in a science journal though lol.

By: Epic Wins

Epic Wins — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:49:02 +0000

I almost don’t even want to comment on this because of how ridiculous this story is, but considering how ludicrously false these results are, I can’t believe a father would embarrass his own son so much as to actually have this story published in a science journal.

If my kid did weeks and weeks of research and told me that he has concluded that 2+2 equals something other than 4, I wouldn’t let him post it on the internet let alone a science journal.