I was at a gas station last week and saw a father of two girls filling up his truck, one of the girls popped open a 16oz can of Rockstar energy drink and starting downing it. She had to be under 10 years old and was already drinking double serving sizes of caffeine and chemical energy!
When I was a kid growing up my parents wouldn’t let me drink soda at all except on special occasions claiming it was for adults only, my wife and I take the same point of view with our children. Root Beer is about the only soda they drink and even then it is once a month at most. They don’t drink pure fruit juice all the time either, usually we always mix 3oz of juice with 5oz water so it is always diluted.
But this isn’t even soda, this is like letting your eight year old drink two cups of coffee, it is absurd and borderline neglect to let children under teenage years to consume these type of beverages. The nervous system is not capable of handling that much dosage and stimulation and this can cause major health problems later in life.
People tend to abuse any substance that gives them energy, good feeling or artificial stimulation and companies will always be there to try innovative ways to provide such products. It is up to parents to educate their children and at best, not contribute to the problem and hasten their addiction and entry into such products.
-Justin Germino
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3 responses to Kids on Energy Drinks
Caffeine is actually fairly high up there in addictiveness potential, too:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/misc/addictiv.htm
CNS stimulants and depressants are definitely something that at least I feel should be disallowed until the child is at least old enough to understand their effects. A small cup of Coca-Cola is one thing, but giving your ten year old energy drinks isn’t much different from giving them marijuana to smoke, legality aside.
I completely agree with you, its no different than giving kids nicotine, or any other chemical. Besides, Energy Drinks can have questionable side effects on someone’s heart depending on dosage, they could be harming their children biologically.
I’m not sure how unhealthy energy drinks are, but I don’t think they’re healthy, especially not for kids. I know from myself, when I drink Red Bull, that my heart rate increases and so I keep it to a very low minimum when I *do* drink a Red Bull a few times a year perhaps. And then people mix it up with vodka too, my god, don’t they want to live?!
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