I am a small town girl with big time writing dreams. I have won honorable mentions in the Writer's Digest Annual Writer's Competition in both fiction and nonfiction categories, and have obtained online publication with one of my articles.

I am currently a Senior at Hiram College (adult student) and am pursuing a BA in Communications.

My interests are very eclectic, which give me a wide variety of writing subjects. Though I consider nonfiction writing my true forte, I scream, cry, and struggle more with my fiction efforts...go figure!

My passion is ...

Anything supernatural

I know too much about ...

The supernatural

My childhood ambition ...

to be an actress

Why I write ...

To share with others

My first job ...

Waitress

Food & Drink > Drinks (Other) Energy drinks: Negative health effects

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The ads are exciting. The names are enticing. Red Bull. Adrenaline Rush. Whoopass. They are part of an ever-growing list of popular energy drinks marketed to the under thirties crowd, a market that used to belong to soft drink companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi. How did they do it?

By being anything but "soft," that's how.

Energy drinks give you, wellenergy.

Duh.

In fact, the energy claims they make for their products are truly outstanding. Adrenaline Rush says that its drink will "elevate your game with high performance energy for your mind and body." Red Bull goes...

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