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⇑⇓THIS LETTER BROUGHT TO YOU BY RED BULL I just read that there were 13,000 emergency room visits last year associated with energy drinks. But they're legal. I used to think that Red Bull was an alcohol drink, not suitable for kids. It turns out that it's just caffeine and B vitamins. So I'm thinking maybe it's not an appropriate sponsor for junior sailing. They certainly have the money to throw around. Tom Woodruff Palawan III III, S&S/Derecktor Falmouth, Maine
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Tom — We fail to see the problem. Nutritionists say Red Bull has no more caffeine than a single cup of coffee and less sugar than a bottle of fruit juice. Which is probably why it's been approved for sale in 164 countries around the world, including all 27 of the sometimesfinicky countries in the European Union. Red Bull sold 4.6 billion cans of the stuff in '11, making it the Red Bull doesn't seem any more detrimental most popular energy to a person's health than, say, Dr. Pepper. drink in the world. But it still had less than 40% of the market, and it has a Monster hot on its trail. But more to the point, if Red Bulls were responsible for 40% of the energy drink hospital visits, that would come to one out of every 250,000 of their consumers. And since more than half of the energy drink hospital visits are associated with alcohol and/or drug abuse, that figure would drop to less than one in half a million. And what percentage of those do you think were idiots who drank five of them at once? We've never consumed a Red Bull or any other energy drink, so we don't have a dog in this fight. But speaking of cats and dogs, do you know that 20% of the population is allergic to them? That would seem to make those domestic pets a much greater health concern than Red Bulls. ⇑⇓DON'T GET US STARTED . . . We finally got Internet here in Bundaberg, Australia, and I decided to check out the latest 'Lectronic. I want to comment on the experience that Scott and Donna Hansen of the Hawaii-based Tripp 47 Celestial had at Fanning Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati. We on Idefix made an unplanned stop at Fanning on the way from Honolulu to Niue, and we had a great experience there. But I'm surprised that a couple of circumnavigators would dare leave port without a departure clearance (zarpe). zarpe zarpe). Things must've been very different when they circumnavigated