Tuesday 23 September 2014

Is it safe to caffeinate your kids?

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Think back to your first cup of coffee: Did it come after dinner in college, as you prepared for your first all-nighter…or over breakfast in high school, as you struggled to wake up? For today's youth, the answer's more likely the latter. Kids are consuming caffeine at ever-earlier ages, and they're getting it from soda and energy drinks as well as from java. In 2013, U.S. poison centers reported 1,834 exposures to energy drinks by children 18 and younger, and 75 percent of all kids have some caffeine every day. Do we know enough about caffeine's effect on growing children — is it...

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