Name: Aldana Vercellone
Article: Spiked!
Source: Reader's Digest Online
Date: July, 2007
As the fashion of taking Energy Drinks is setting in kids and adolescents, worried parents and doctors are asking themselves: How bad can they be?
Energy drinks are loaded with high amounts of CAFFEINE plus high doses of SUGAR and CALORIES. Besides, they also contain ingredients that accelerate caffeine's effect, such as TAURINE and GUARANA. This mixing can have serious consequences on children's bodies, which are in the process of growing up.
The after effect of consuming high amounts of energy drinks include heart palpitations, seizures, high blood pressure, nervousness, anxiety, insomnia, shaking, nausea, diarrhea and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders. It is claimed that, as opposed to adolescents' beliefs, the overdoing of caffeine restricts the ability to concentrate while studying.
Appart from that doctors refer to energy drinks as a way of drinking empty calories due to the fact that the fashionable drinks double and even triple the doses of sugar and calories raising the fear of obesity as a national epidemic in the US.
The most worrying aspect of this new fashion is that Energy Drinks are obtaining great marketing in kids. You will see posters encouraging the ingest of the beverage in concerts, fashion shows and sports events dedicated to teenagers.
But, there are good news for parents: Energy drinks are not addictive and adolescents can quit drinking them easily.
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