Britney Spears’ Red Bull Consumption Criticized

Lloyd Grove of The New York Daily News profiled the popularity of Red Bull with celebrities, including Britney Spears, who recently explained her posing naked from the waist down for a recent cover of Esquire: “I had, like, eight Red Bulls and said, ‘OK, let’s do it.’ I learned my lesson,” she said. University of Minnesota nutrition professor Joanne Slavin pronounced Spears’ rampant Red Bull consumption “awful,” and added: “Why would you do that? One can, okay. But not in large doses. The caffeine increases heart rate and raises blood pressure.”