2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
American doctors recommend that children and teenagers avoid it energy drinks and replace them with sports drinks in limited quantities.
According to experts, the consumption of energy drinks from a young organism can cause side effects. They believe that children have never needed energy drinksas they contain caffeine and other non-nutritional stimulants.
The body of children reacts differently from that of adults when consuming energy drinks. For the child's body, this is stress, and stress is unnecessary for a body that is still growing.
Independent experts have compared the effects of sports drinks, also called isotonic, and the effects of energy drinks on the body of children and teenagers.
Sports drinks differ from energy drinks in that they do not contain stimulants. Energy drinks contain many different ingredients - including herbal extracts, which can have side effects for which there is not much information yet.
Although there are not many documented cases of harm associated with these drinks, the stimulants in them can damage the heart rhythm and cause various unpleasant effects.
In some children and teenagers, regular drinking of energy drinks or drinking more than one drink at a time can have unpredictable consequences.
Cases of hallucinations and heart problems, as well as liver and kidney damage associated with the use of energy drinks.
Although these cases are rare, children and adolescents should be aware that it is best to refrain from consuming energy drinks.
In most developed countries, about half of energy drink users are teenagers and children. The caffeine content of energy drinks is not suitable for consumption by children.
For children who lead a mostly sedentary lifestyle, the consumption of energy drinks is a way to gain more extra pounds. Experts recommend that children and teenagers quench their thirst with water or, if they train actively, with sports drinks.
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