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Mixed message? At least the warning is on the label

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Image courtesy The Mushroom Kingdom

An excited six-year-old came home and asked his mother:

Mom, Mom can I drink this Power Up?

I don’t know. Let me see. What it is it?

It is an energy drink.

You are six. You don’t need an energy drink. Let me see that.

 

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 Small type: Product not intended for children.

This story comes to us from KFOX in El Paso, Texas. Watch the video report here.

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One Response to “Mixed message? At least the warning is on the label”

  1. Links: Food, Bikes, Music, Empire and Energy Drinks at Trying to follow Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 6:06 am

    […] Energy drink for kids, but not for kids […]

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