
“Energy drinks are a small but growing segment in the non-alcoholic beverage industry in the United States, but health experts have expressed concern that their caffeine content poses risks in youngsters as heart arrhythmia and higher blood pressure. Last month, the American Medical Association called for a ban on the marketing of energy drinks to children and teenagers, said Senator Jay Rockefeller at the start of the hearing. He stated that in the first six months of this year, poison control centers in the United States received about 1,500 reports involving energy drinks, ‘more than half of which involved children under the age of 18.'”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/31/energy-drink-makers-tell-senate-panel-theyre-being-victimized/
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