Warning of caffeine energy drinks

American Academy of Pediatrics issued a report recommending against the use of children and adolescents to energy drinks at all, despite the many known benefits of caffeine, which is the main material for energy drinks has become a vast proliferation, not to mention the new products on the way to market.

The latest is called caffeine products "Sheets: chips," a Geely cut the size of a postage stamp Kmatarat melt in the mouth breathing, a new type of energy products but without water.

A report of the US National Public Radio (NPR), for one of the founders of the company producing Warren Strohl that these chips advantages outweigh caffeine drinks.

He added that it does not represent a significant calories, and do not need a special time to be addressed, and it has good taste, and may be an alternative to energy drinks or energy or coffee cup doses.

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US Army developed a caffeinated gum fall within the food rations soldiers
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Caffeine and sleep
For his part, Harris Lieberman is an American psychologist, researcher at the Army Research Environmental Medicine, who has studied caffeine three decades, the sleeve and the diversity of products containing caffeine, which innovate and shopping is really sudden.

Lieberman believes that the popularity of caffeine a reflection of the pattern of modern life, we pay ourselves some high expectations, as well as the community brings us many demands, and both came together to deprive us of adequate sleep.

But Amy Wolfson, a professor of psychology at the Faculty of Holy Cross, Mass., Stresses the importance of increasing sleep time, sleep reduces the value of community, and this is evident in sleep research results a long time ago.

Wolfson adds that more teenagers suffering from sleep deprivation, and instead of collecting enough of it turning to caffeine products.

The US Army has developed energy products, a caffeinated chewing gum, and fall within the food rations the soldiers, because the caffeine keeps a vigilant soldiers deprived of sleep.

The producers of some energy drinks currently markets energy gum to the public.

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Parents must be swallowed drugs that control their children, and caffeine one
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Specialist psychological William Kilgore
Children and caffeine
For his part, warned William Kilgore, a specialist psychiatric hospital McLean in Belmont, Mass., That adults consume caffeine with their food down, so do not take it seriously when it comes to their children, although it is a real and powerful drug, and affects mood and factors of cognitive and psychological.

Kilgore stresses that parents should monitor their children swallowed drugs, caffeine and one of them, and added that no one really knows the effect of caffeine physically or psychologically to children.

He pointed out that there are many research conducted on adults, but are limited for children, stressing the importance of further research and investigation in order to better understand how the effect of caffeine on the young.

Ban caffeine
In the context of the risks of energy drinks also, the journal "Pediatrics" Pediatrics "published a summary of the research on energy drinks conducted by researchers at the University of Miami.

This research suggests that the pharmacological properties of information and the information of the components of energy drinks cause concern of side effects, and added that these drinks contain caffeine beside, Garana compounds such as guarana, and Turin taurine, as well as for-Carnitine L-carnitine.

Previous studies have estimated that the baby bottle or box energy drink consumption in addition to other sources of caffeine Kalsoda, enough to overcome the limits percent milligram caffeine allowed to consume daily without side effects, which draw a box and a half of the energy drink.

Indicate that children with heart patients and the loss of attention and hyperactivity, they are the most sensitive to the effect of energy drinks, researchers believe that it is essential that children reduces its consumption due to the risk of beverages and its lack of any "therapeutic benefit."

The study concluded that if the research did not prove the safety of energy drinks to children and adolescents, it is wise to prohibit addressed such as tobacco, alcohol and drugs.