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As the mother of four teenagers, Cathy O'Brien can't help but have an opinion on energy drinks, those caffeine-fortified soft drinks with names like Rock Star, Amp and Monster. I don't like them," says O'Brien, who lives in Wexford. "I don't purchase them. They're not in my house.
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NORMAL - Here's the latest hydration advice for children and teenagers involved in summer sports and activities:- Drink water frequently.- Use sports drinks occasionally.- Never use energy drinks. Medical professionals have known these guidelines. But they were underscored recently when the American Academy of Pediatrics released a report outlining how sports and energy drinks are misused by many children and teenagers.
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You don't have to look far to find . They're in gas stations, grocery stores and vending machines. The drinks, which contain up to 143 mg of caffeine, have become a part of many teens' daily diets. But recently the dangers of caffeine, especially when paired with alcohol, have been in the spotlight.
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ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Sugary, high-alcohol energy drinks that are popular with college students who want to get drunk quickly and cheaply came under renewed scrutiny Monday as investigators announced that nine freshmen had been hospitalized after drinking them at an off-campus party. Several states are considering outlawing the drinks and at least two universities have banned them from campus while the Food and Drug Administration reviews their safety.
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Binge drinking among adolescents and young adults is not new, but authorities are warning about a dangerous new twist with an increased use of spiked energy drinks that deliver a potent mix of stimulants and booze. The fruity drinks, such as Four Loko, lead to a quick and intense high that has been dubbed "blackout in a can.
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Sales of energy drinks and shots are soaring, just as medical concerns are increasing about the popularity of the high-caffeine drinks among young people. Energy drinks had 13.3 percent dollar sales growth in 2010 and received a "significant boost" from energy shot sales at convenience stores, says a report out this month from market research firm SymphonyIRI Group. This beat the other top 10 consumer packaged goods categories in grocery, drug, mass merchandise and convenience stores, excluding Walmart.
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They're readily available in supermarkets and gas stations -- even at the vending machines at the gym. Anyone can buy energy drinks, but some children and young adults might rethink whether they should drink them. A recent study titled "Health Effects of Energy Drinks on Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults" -- published Feb. 14 in Pediatrics and led by physicians at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine -- found that energy drinks could be harmful to some children and adolescents.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Energy drinks are understudied, overused and can be dangerous for children and teens, warned a report by doctors that says kids shouldn't use the popular products. The potential harms, caused mostly by too much caffeine or similar ingredients, include heart palpitations, seizures, strokes and even sudden death, the authors write in the medical journal Pediatrics. They reviewed data from the government and interest groups, scientific literature, case reports and articles in popular and trade media.
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Hey, what are you drinking, that's not Joose, is it? It looks like Joose, or maybe some Four Loko, and it smells like kiwi and that's why I thought it might be Snapple at first. Did you hear the federal authorities are looking into alcoholic energy drinks, saying they're all bad for you and stuff and deserve a label and maybe should be outlawed all together, and at the same time the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is urging retailers to be extra careful when selling the drinks because they're marketed to minors and stuff? If you ask me, not that you are, but I'm going to tell you anyway, because I've been up since 6 a.m. Thursday and have had 15 and a half times my daily intake of caffeine and B12 - not to mention a little somethin'-somethin' - this investigation is li...
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CHICAGO -- More than 500 new energy drinks launched worldwide this year, and coffee fans are probably too old to understand why. Energy drinks aren't merely popular with young people. They attract fan mail on their own MySpace pages. They spawn urban legends. They get reviewed by bloggers. And they taste like carbonated cough syrup.
