by Kate Johns

Created on: July 03, 2008

As a Mother of two children, (ages 17 and 9) I can safely say that energy drinks are as bad for children as drinking alcohol is for underage children. Children should not be consuming energy drinks. Energy drinks should be called super caffeinated, high sugar bombs'. I will not even allow these health wreckers in my home. When consumed in high concentrations energy drinks can virtually ruin a child's health.

Add in the fact that they are addicting, and you can have a major health problem right in your own home. With young children drinking energy drinks they can ruin their health. Energy drinks don't supply a person's body with real energy. Your body takes food, and breaks it up and creates energy from the food you eat. When properly fueled a body can have a lot of energy to keep going all day. That's why when a person eats the right foods during the day; they maintain a proper energy balance.

Energy drinks have high levels of caffeine and sugar that create a major spike in your adrenaline, and blood pressure. After burning off the caffeine high and the sugar high associated with these energy drinks a person crashes and burns. That's why when little kids drink energy drinks, or have a can of soda they get all this energy once the body sends the caffeine and sugar coated junk to a child's bloodstream. They will be running around, practically jumping off the ceiling with the high the drinks have caused. And then several hours later, your child becomes crabby and tired, and feels like taking a nap.

Energy drinks are not a good thing to let your children drink, due to the high levels of sugar and caffeine. Besides you will have a caffeine sugar junkie begging you for his next fix. You'll be pestered by, "Mom can I have another energy drink?" And the begging won't stop because the more you let your child drink this dangerous concoction the more he will crave it. It's just like we adults that have to have coffee to get started in the morning. If we don't have any caffeine we feel tired, lethargic, and we can get a great big headache. This happens in children also, but because they have smaller bodies they feel the rush of caffeine and sugar faster than adults and crash and burn sooner.

Besides having a caffeine, sugar- addicted child driving you crazy for more sweet stuff, your child's health can be ruined by energy drinks. High levels of sugar can raise a person's triglycerides that when high enough for along time can harm your child's health. High levels of caffeine

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