how/why is coffee bad for children?

Answer 1

It has a high level of caffeine, which can cause hyperactive behavior, and it is addictive.

Answer 2

Coffee has, up until recently, gotten a bum rap by the medical establishment . The tendency has been to focus on caffeine as if that were the only substance in coffee--there are over 800 components, including many antioxidants . Early theories held that coffee causes cancer and increases heart attacks and some early poorly done epidemiological studies that failed to control for smoking found such an association . But this thinking was wrong. Unfortunately, it persists. Almost all of the more recent better done studies show that coffee has lots of health benefits . It is good for the liver, helps control diabetes, may help asthma, and may ward off Parkinson's disease. An area where there appears to be a paucity of good research is to compare types of coffee and brewing methods. Researchers have often compared green tea to black tea and have found that green tea contains more antioxidants. Coffee contains antioxidants as well, but I'd bet that freshly roasted espresso contains more antioxidants than drip brewed Folgers. It would be interesting to see researchers examine this. One wonders whether it could it even have something to do with the Mediterrean effect. Finally, comparisons between coffee and cola are ridiculous. Both have caffeine, but there the similarity ends. Cola is filled with refined sugar (actually now high fructose corn syrup) and has no nutritional value. I'd much rather my kid drank coffee than Coke. Here is a link to an article that (toward the bottom) looks at the possible health benefits of coffee for children: "In fact, no studies show that coffee in reasonable amounts is in any way harmful to children."

Answer 3

okay , i am young , i used to drink coffee as a kid , and i am still doing it , anyway , Coffee have alot of problems , it is addictive for sure , it make a very long Sleeping and awakness gaps , like you wake up for a whole day and night , and sleep for a whole day and night ( if you had enough caffine ) , also it makes alot of troubles with digestion and ulcer of the stomach , it makes people concentrate for a while then lose concentration for all the other time , not a good thing anyway to try on kids , so , never let kids have coffee, or they will end up like me < really bad thing

Answer 4

It's got to be the caffeine. I drank coffee in the morning and tea at night with my supper as a child and had a terrible time falling to sleep. This lead to problems that I had to work out on my own. Started taking sleeping pills at a very early age because no one made the connection to coffee and tea and my insomnia.

Answer 5

Coffee is bad for children because it is addictive, has caffine, and it makes them hyperactive. Also it would affect their sleep. They wouldn't be able to sleep or if they are sleeping they would get up then they wouldn't be able to go back to sleep.
I really don't know much about coffee because i don't drink it but that's all i know

Answer 6

Not only can it be bad for the children as others have expressed to you already, it can be bad for the parent who has to deal with the caffeinated child. NOT FUN!

Answer 7

Yes It Stelths Their Growth

Answer 8

1.addictive
2.hyperactivity
3.sleep problems
4.shown to stunt growth.

Answer 9

It is addictive.

It has a lots of caffeine.

It stunts your growth.