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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.
Small type: Product not intended for children.
This story comes to us from KFOX in El Paso, Texas. Watch the video report here.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:06 am
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