Why are children permitted to drink energy drinks? Energy drinks have high caffeine levels that if consumed in too large of a quantity can be health threatening. These drinks, though marketed as the drinks that give people ‘wings’, contain many harmful chemicals. Also, most young people do not know to limit their intake. Teens especially will mix it with tobacco, alcohol, and other illegal substances and binge drinking may follow. If people want kids to be robust they should not enable minors to consume energy beverages and instead have them drink water, milk, and juice to get energy the natural way. The first reason that children should not drink energy drinks is that they can destroy the physical health of a student-athlete. While the drinks
