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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Off topic, but I could never drink Sunny D when I was little because for some reason it gave me incredible circles under my eyes. Drink some and then an hour or so later it would look as if I had huge bruises under my eyes. A bit of a mystery.
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They had sweet commercials though! I remember I went for like half a year... if that of drinking that stuff. Even as a kid I got sick of it because of how sweet and unnatural it tasted. My older brother used to love that stuff.
Given the alternatives, I'd think Pocari would be pretty good for young kids.
Although the young handsome golfer, Ishikawa Ryo, endorses Citric Amino I haven't really heard about it or seen anyone drink it.
I have noticed an influx of "health drinks" lately which I suppose could be due to me winning about 8 bottles in a game of bingo. The health drinks are supposed to be good to drink before you work out. I didn't really notice any of their effects... but I remember they didn't taste very good. I think they contain caffeine and other substances that would give you an energy boost and change certain proccesses making your workouts more worthwhile. I wouldn't give those to my kid for sure.
Straying a little bit from pocari, what's the deal with all these "elixers" and things I see in Japan. I know Ribotan D has been around for a while, so that seems like it could be safe, but some of these other ones make some crazy claims and go for quite a bit of dough. I'm always wondering about the long term effects of those things. I've noticed a lot of them seem to be targeting women these days too... some of them claim to increase certain hormones that would increase bust size. That all sounds awfully suspicious to me.