I’ve never liked the taste of diet drinks and never drink them and I think their claims of being “diet” is a bunch of bull. I’d stay away from them. Water is the best possible thing you can drink!

Best of luck in your goals!

Have more than seven states in India banned it? It’s appalling how aggressive Coca Cola marketed their stuff to kids there and elsewhere, but meanwhile tries to jump on the “health bandwagon” here.

I’ll stick with coffee, tea and water!

Also, I think putting anything that could be called a coke in any way, shape, or form under “health and wellness” is borderline criminal. Irresponsible goes without saying.

However, I don’t think the toxicity of vitamins is anything you would need to worry about in these products in most cases (the other stuff, for sure; the vitamins, no). You have to really overdo these vitamins to cause toxicity (except niacin).

B6 is considered nontoxic up to 100mg per day (as a supplement, not including what a “normal” diet includes). And (yes, I’m a dork, I went and grabbed my vitamin bottles and also one of Frank’s Full Throttle cans for comparison, because you made me really curious) based on a 2K calorie diet (does anyone actually eat a 2K calorie diet?), the recommended daily allowance is 2mg. And the Full Throttle can says that it provides (haha, like these drinks provide anything, right?) 60% of the RDA of B6, which is 1.2mg. So you’d have to drink close to 100 of the Full Throttles to go overboard on your B6. Even if you’re taking a multivitamin/mineral, you’re usually getting 2mg in supplements total, so you have a long way to go before you get to toxic.

I haven’t been able to find any known amount of B12 toxicity. There probably is one, they just don’t know what it is… This is the only one I would worry about just scanning the list, because you don’t pee out the B12 you don’t use, you recycle it, and it builds up in your liver, and I don’t like stuff in my body that I can’t get rid of (except that, of course, I most likely have a B12 deficiency). Still, Full Throttle (we don’t keep anything that starts with “diet” in the house) contains only 30% of the RDA, and if toxicity was at a low amount, I’m sure “they” would know about it.

Magnesium is also unlikely to become toxic through supplements unless you have a bowel problem or not fully functioning kidneys or an underactive thyroid (plus a couple of other risk factors such as being on meds that contain Mg). It’s considered safe up to 350mg. But you have put me onto something I’m going to ask my neuro about (because guess who has an underactive thyroid and a bowel problem and has horrible nerve pain and muscle problems that won’t go away! Oh, plus facial parasthesias, chalked up to seizures, and my seizure meds? Contain Mg. Of course.). Thanks!

Oh my word. I actually took niacin on accident one day. My mom was telling me to take an aspirin or something for a headache, and I accidentally took 2 niacin instead. My whole body was one tingle explosion. Did not enjoy! Anyway, RDA of Niacin is 20mg, and it is thought to cause liver damage at over 35mg/day in supplement form. So if you’re taking a supplement (mine has 25mg of niacin), then you only have 10mg in supplements allowed before you’re getting into the danger zone. Well, the giant can of Full Throttle that my husband drinks contains 60% of the RDA of niacin (what is that, 12mg?). Yeah, so if you’re taking a multi that gives you 25 and drinking a nasty drink that gives you another 12, you’re in liver damage zone.

Ok, so that was a long, rambly comment that said basically, “Kate, no need to worry, NO WAIT! WORRY! YOU’RE SO RIGHT! NO MORE FULL THROTTLE FOR FRANK! EVER!”

Poor Frank.