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Starbucks Announces the Trenta Cup, Its Largest to Date

The world’s biggest coffee chain is making a bold move to shatter competition, having announced the introduction of a new supersized drink. The Trenta cup will become available for certain beverages starting this month. The Trenta is a 31-ounce cup (916 ml), which will only cost $0.50 more than the Venti, the p...

18 January 2011
14:41 GMT

Lindsay Lohan Stays Sober with Kombucha Tea

Earlier this week, a judge ordered Lindsay Lohan to wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet and subject herself to random drug testing after she reportedly violated her parole from a prior drunk-driving case. The same day after she heard the changes she had to make in her life, Lindsay dyed her hair back to blonde, start...

28 May 2010
15:31 GMT

Bow Wow Drinks, Drives and Tweets

Rapper Bow Wow, who broke on the scene as Lil’ Bow Wow, is now being targeted on the Internet by the online community for getting drunk behind the wheel and even taking to Twitter to boast about it. According to celebrity gossip website TMZ, the rapper took the tweets down after he sobered up, but the damage ha...

4 January 2010
10:11 GMT

Vampire Craze Overload: Blood Energy Potion

The “Twilight” phenomenon is nowhere near the point of showing the first signs of dying down, that much is for certain. At the same time, HBO’s latest “True Blood” series, also dealing with vampires and how they have managed to forge an existence amongst humans, is breaking record after ...

22 October 2009
15:51 GMT

Limit Consumption of Energy Drinks, Experts Warn

Energy drinks have become a must have for many of us, especially on a slow day at the office or before heading to the gym. However, experts cited by Shape magazine warn that many of the effects of the ingredients that go into making them are not fully documented yet, for which reason an all-natural remedy for tiredne...

5 October 2009
16:11 GMT

Useful Tips to Fight the Dreaded Hangover

As Men’s Health magazine puts it so wonderfully, drinking is often a “buy-now, pay-later” affair, and few are those who have never woken up feeling all sorts of down under the weather after a night of heavy partying. Of course, it is commonly believed that most of us practice moderation even when dr...

6 July 2009
07:10 GMT

Learn to Enjoy the Green Fairy in Absinthe

Throughout time, much has been said about, and especially against, absinthe. Even if it was made legal again in the ‘90s in most countries, certain myths about this green spirit are still in place today, which makes many steer clear of it as if it were a drug. The truth is that absinthe is just an alcoholic dri...

28 January 2009
05:46 GMT

Tips for Low-Calorie Alcoholic Drinks

It has been shown that few of us hardly need any excuse for ordering an alcoholic drink at the end of a long working day. If moderation is exercised, one drink per day is actually hailed as having health benefits we don’t get to enjoy otherwise but, sometimes, the one drink threshold is often ignored. Thanks to...

26 January 2009
15:21 GMT

Energy Drinks Destroy Your Teeth

Man, you drink some energy beverage and you work like a machine. At least, this is what advertising says. Science presents another story about drinking too much caffeine. And a new research published in the journal "General Dentistry" shows that energy drinks can make your teeth look like those of a meth consumer. A...

14 March 2008
14:06 GMT

9 % of the Beverages Found to Contain Cancer-Causing Chemical!

All soft drinks that you ingest are artificial. They contain an array of synthetic added products. Do you really know what sh*t you are drinking? A new report by the EPA (U. S. Environmental Protection Agency) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to be published in the ACS' Journal of Agricultural an...

8 January 2008
05:34 GMT

Why Is It Dangerous to Your Health to Mix Energy Drinks with Alcohol?

Energy drinks help you pump more alcohol than usual. But this does nothing more than to increase the effect of alcohol, as revealed by a novel study made at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Student subjects who mixed alcohol with energy drinks were twice more vulnerable to injuries, and twice more likely to...

8 November 2007
05:56 GMT

Energy Drinks Can Be Dangerous for the Heart

Energy drinks are advertised as if they were the ones pulling the weights when you go to the gym. Some of their chemicals can even induce the contrary effect of what you really want. And a new research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2007 and carried at the Wayne State Universit...

7 November 2007
03:44 GMT

Which Soft Drink Contains Most Caffeine?

Have you ever looked for an energy boost in a smoky disco club? The solution is not in cola, but rather in citrus-flavored sodas. These are the results of a new research that also discovered that the amount of caffeine varies significantly from brand to brand and also within the products of the same brand.The authors...

12 September 2007
05:27 GMT

Does Red Bull Give You Wings?

If we were to believe the ad, then we'd most certainly have wings by now. You'll do more workout sessions than Schwarzenegger did when he was young and hold up for hours in the gym. Is it really like that? In the end, the effects are given by what the drink contains. Glucose. Most energy drinks contain this...

18 July 2007
14:21 GMT

Do Energy Drinks Really Give You Energy?

They advertise for energy drinks as if the drinks themselves were the ones pulling the weights when you go to the gym. Hold on! Besides pure advertisement, some of these chemicals can after all induce the contrary effect of what you really want. That's because the active ingredient in energy drinks, varying in d...

9 July 2007
14:51 GMT

The Best Peruvian Aphrodisiac: the Frog Juice

We could not say frogs are a stable component of the human diet, but in some countries people do eat frogs. Italians and French consider the frog legs a delicacy and in other European countries, you could also serve them as "slough chicken". In some areas of Latin America the frogs of the genus Leptodactylus are ex...

27 June 2007
15:06 GMT

Why Are Sports Drinks Better Than Water for Those Who Exercise?

After a long run in the heat, the only thing you can think about is a bottle of cold water that you'd just drink at once. Water is refreshing, but is it healthy in this case?W. Larry Kenney, Penn State professor of physiology and kinesiology, says a sports drink would be more appropriate. "Sports drinks have ext...

12 May 2007
06:22 GMT


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