• minibyte@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I used to play pool with my cousin. It was an interesting afternoon once, me jittery from alcohol withdrawal and him from Monster – so sugar and caffeine. Boy he looked like hell.

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      1 year ago

      Laugh as we might just because the health affects are not immediate versus long term doesn’t mean there isn’t ramifications.

      Alcohol will mess you up in the short term and in the long term in more ways than one especially for those that abuse it.

      Oddly one of those ways mimics over consumption of sugar.

      But not to worry just like the culture of alcohol and tobacco had us convinced that there are no health issues at all to worry about, it’s the same mate for those operating on massive rushes of sugar and caffeine in energy drinks.

      They might not appear mentally drunk but rest assured their bodies are…