{"id":15001,"date":"2017-01-23T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2017-01-22T05:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T10:10:47","slug":"the-energy-in-energy-drinks-used-to-be-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-energy-in-energy-drinks-used-to-be-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Energy In Energy Drinks Used To Be Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/012217_1004_TheEnergyIn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Timothy J. Jorgensen delved into the weird history of energy drinks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today&#8217;s energy drinks provide energy through chemical stimulants like caffeine.<\/li>\n<li>In the past though they provided actual energy. RadiThor was radium (a radioactive element which releases radiation) dissolved in water sold in the 1920s.<\/li>\n<li>This energy is, despite what The Hulk would have you believe, entirely useless at providing an energy boost to human beings.<\/li>\n<li>The dangers of radium were well known at the time. On the other hand a study had shown that Radithor increased &#8220;the sexual passion of water newts&#8221;. It was a successful product.<\/li>\n<li>Fortunately, radium is expensive, limiting the number of people who could afford it, and thus the number of people who suffered radiation sickness.<\/li>\n<li>Its chief celebrity endorser developed a psychological addiction to the drink, and died from radiation related complications.<\/li>\n<li>His radioactive skeleton is buried in a lead-lined coffin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/56738-wild-history-of-radioactive-energy-drinks.html\">Live Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/todayilearned\/comments\/5p3ijv\/til_of_radithor_a_health_drink_in_the_1920s_that\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy J. Jorgensen delved into the weird history of energy drinks: Today&#8217;s energy drinks provide energy through chemical stimulants like caffeine. In the past though they provided actual energy. RadiThor was radium (a radioactive element which releases radiation) dissolved in water sold in the 1920s. This energy is, despite what The Hulk would have you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/012217_1004_TheEnergyIn1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15012,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions\/15012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}