Caffeine is being added to foods more and more these days. But the caffeine craze has caused the Food and Drug Administration to look into the possibility regulating America's favorite drug.

 

Last week, Wrigley announced it will release a new gum that will contain a half cup of coffee's worth in each stick. The new "energy gum" is just one example of a recent trend that has seen caffeine added to everything from granola bars to jelly beans, and even water.

 

However, the FDA says that so many caffeinated foods could be harmful, especially to children, and the agency plans to investigate the effects.

 

"Our concern is about caffeine appearing in a range of new products, including ones that may be attractive and readily available to children and adolescents, without careful consideration of their cumulative impact," said Michael R. Taylor, the deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at the FDA, in a press release.

 

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Is the FDA regulating caffeine a good thing or a slippery slope?

Is the FDA regulating caffeine a good thing or a slippery slope?

 

Good thing

Slippery slope.

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It's an awful thing. Extremely slippery slope. What someone wants to eat/drink is their choice.

It's an awful thing. Extremely slippery slope. What someone wants to eat/drink is their choice.

 

I want to approach it from that angle too, but the insurance racket makes that impossible when you consider everyone's health care costs are shared. Good, bad or indifferent, I'm not the only one who pays for my being overweight.

If that's going to be the benchmark then everyone who gets government financed healthcare in any, shape or form should be required to maintain a healthy weight and abstain from any and all food and drink that could have an adverse effect on their health.

 

Bow can you imagine the howling that a proposal like that would cause.

^Sort of like mandatory drug tests for welfare recipients

Most know I am usually small government guy.

 

Not that I would want knee-jerk regulation at all. But this is an area that has enough mass impact and can potentially impact so many people, young people, I would support the FDA or USDA doing studies and collecting and propagating the information. Artificially jacking up these drinks with caffeine and other stuff is something not to take lightly. Do all of this before any specific regulations.

Most know I am usually small government guy.

 

Not that I would want knee-jerk regulation at all. But this is an area that has enough mass impact and can potentially impact so many people, young people, I would support the FDA or USDA doing studies and collecting and propagating the information. Artificially jacking up these drinks with caffeine and other stuff is something not to take lightly. Do all of this before any specific regulations.

How does me or you or anyone drinking an energy drink with caffeine it have a mass impact? Caffeine isn't the problem with most of these products.

How does me or you or anyone drinking an energy drink with caffeine it have a mass impact? Caffeine isn't the problem with most of these products.

 

Correct. Sugar is.

How does me or you or anyone drinking an energy drink with caffeine it have a mass impact? Caffeine isn't the problem with most of these products.

 

I was thinking of the additional caffeine (and/or other ingredients (vitamin b) that are artificially jacked up) on young people during developmental years.

 

I do remember Jolt Cola - their slogan was "all the sugar and twice the caffeine". Maybe it was the original power drink...

 

Similar with Ale-8.

I was thinking of the additional caffeine (and/or other ingredients (vitamin b) that are artificially jacked up) on young people during developmental years.

 

I do remember Jolt Cola - their slogan was "all the sugar and twice the caffeine". Maybe it was the original power drink...

 

Similar with Ale-8.

Doesn't it come down on the parents responsibility to monitor what their kids are eating/drinking? Weren't we all, or at least most, killing Bloomberg for his large soda ban? What's the difference?

I was thinking of the additional caffeine (and/or other ingredients (vitamin b) that are artificially jacked up) on young people during developmental years.

 

I do remember Jolt Cola - their slogan was "all the sugar and twice the caffeine". Maybe it was the original power drink...

 

Similar with Ale-8.

 

Jolt Cola and rum = Jumper Cable.