Get Up And Do Something: Generation C: Is caffeine the next kids' health crisis?

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Generation C: Is caffeine the next kids' health crisis? Jan 31st 2013, 11:39 Recently my 12-year-old son came home and told us he had an energy drink at a parent-supervised party. We were shocked. Why would parents who would never allow cigarettes or alcohol make caffeine-spiked beverages available to pre-teens? My son said it was no big deal; all of his friends were drinking them after school. Apparently, so are lots of other kids. Over the last 30 years, caffeine intake among children and adolescents has spiked 70 percent; today two-thirds of children consume caffeine on a daily basis. They get it in soda and energy drinks, of course, but also in a surprising range of stealth products marketed to kids, including candy, chips, gum, lip balm, even sunflower seeds.

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