Caffeine: Next kids' health crisis?

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-- house calls back and over the last decade caffeine intake among kids in adolescents.

Has spiked 17%.

Not without consequences because today two thirds of children -- consuming caffeine on a daily basis.

And it's not so good for them practicing I'm thinking of people will say okay -- give my -- diet sodas -- soda.

But chocolate has caffeine a lot of -- have.

-- it's an almost everything now some -- flower seeds have caffeine it's in -- in these monster drinks these energy drinks are the biggest offenders and everyone thinks so.

They're fighting there for sports -- sports drinks they have a lot of casting my biggest concern is that caffeine blocks the brain from knowing your fatigue.

So you know what happens if you're a kid just stay up you don't sleep you get irritable and you don't sleep.

All the diseases I worry about come marching along down the road high blood pressure.

Obesity diabetes everything what we're concerned about depression so the problem with caffeine is it causes you not to sleep and it raises your heart rate blood pressure.

I'm we're gonna get on this one this sounds serious Birkhead stock look right I've been a huge advocate of caffeine for -- have stated many times doesn't -- us.

It increases antioxidants there -- some -- and about anti cancer but for kids there's no safe level and this is off limits.

I think a lot of it has to do with the media I think what has happened -- seventies and eighties.

About cigarette smoking and how cool it was too small.

Same thing is happening when these energy drinks I think keeps needs to be monitor this is -- feel that FDA is not on top of this so you don't know how much caffeine you're getting.

Around the level of a 10250.

Milligram you may be okay even though it's not safe once it hits 500 plus.

You're gonna get a lot of nervous system problems tremors.

Etc.

this is an addictive so watch your kids -- that's -- health -- we can definitely and it may nice turn.

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