<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>8 Reasons Why People Drink Soda &amp; 16 Reasons To Give Up Soda Drinking : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>8 Reasons Why People Drink Soda &amp; 16 Reasons To Give Up Soda Drinking : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[8 Reasons Why People Drink Soda &amp; 16 Reasons To Give Up Soda Drinking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you know the extent to which drinking carbonated, caffeinated, sugared, or artificially sweetened beverages harms your body?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61546/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61546/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink a beer and lose the fear - study]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drinking alcohol dulls the brain's ability to detect threats, US researchers said today in a study that helps explain why drunk people get into bar fights and drive their cars.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60075/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60075/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Anti-Smoking Pill May Help Curb Drinking]]></title><description><![CDATA[A single pill appears to hold promise in curbing the urges to both smoke and drink, according to researchers trying to help people overcome addiction by targeting a pleasure center in the brain.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26839/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26839/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking age 'should be 21' ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The legal drinking age in the UK should be raised to 21 in a bid to curb binge drinking among youngsters.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/16743/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/16743/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA['Cocaine' drink is pulled from shelves]]></title><description><![CDATA[An energy drink called Cocaine has been pulled from stores nationwide amid concerns about its name, the company that produces it said Monday.<br/><br/>Follow up on <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/entertainment/food-and-drink/l/17716/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this story</a>.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19462/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19462/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens to Your Body after drinking a Can Of Soda]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fascinating, a complete break down from the first sip to after a few hours. The process your body takes to digest, and in turn what the side effects are, of Soda.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51891/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51891/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA['Cocaine' drink in trouble with state officials ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of cases of an energy drink called Cocaine have been seized by the state, which accuses the Las Vegas company that produces it of not licensing it as required by law.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17716/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17716/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[This is NOT a new energy drink]]></title><description><![CDATA[In fact, Drank is just the opposite, inspired by the hip-hop concoction made from codine cough syrup.<br/><br/>Gee, I've been drinking an anti-energy drink for years... it's called beer.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/73538/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/73538/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Last Man Standing drinking contest ends in death]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Reid entered into a drinking contest inspired by American Pie 5 with his friend James Lynch.  After an intensive bout of drinking, Reid was helped to bed where he later died of alcohol poisoning.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48975/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48975/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mario Bar - Get Alcoholated the Mario Way]]></title><description><![CDATA[A drinking establishment employed the wonders of Mario, on a Mario World theme night. Find some fun pictures here and a few stylized drinks for Princess Peach to get hammered with. 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