Kids and the Coffee Craze :: Health Children Papers

Kids and the Coffee CrazeChellie Normands 11-year-old daughter started imbibition java when she could first pick up a cup. We enjoymentd to put spoonfuls in the empty creamer containers at Dennys for her to sip a little when she was most a year old, the 34-year-old mom from Lawton, Oklahoma said.By the time she was 6, shed use $1 of her allowance each month to buy one specialness cocoa that she liked ... She doesnt go through a pot a day, like me, but she has it directly and then when she wants it, Normand said.Normands daughters coffee habits are not that uncommon.Children, as young as 11 or 12, and teenagers are swallow coffee at a higher(prenominal) rate and this trend is causing alarm among members of the medical field.Its not bonny an adult beverage anymore, said Linda Antinoro, a nutritionist with Brigham & Womens Hospital. Twelve and 13-year-olds are consuming it regularly. Its eye-opening.During the past year, the number of 13-17 year-olds drinking coffee increased 1 2 percent, according to a 2004 press passing game by the NPD Group, a market research firm in hot York The amount of teenagers consuming coffee while dining in restaurants and cafes rose wine 22 percent last year, the study showed.Becca*, 17, started drinking coffee three years ago. The teen drinks three medium coffees a week from any Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks.I get an iced coffee with milk and two sugars from Dunkins or an iced caramel macchiato from Starbucks, she said.The high naturalize senior from Burlington said she started drinking the beverage simply because it looked good.Her friend, Komal*, 16, doesnt remember why she began drinking coffee when she was 13. A fan of Starbucks java chip frappuccinos and the Dunkin Donuts Coffee Coolattas, the high school junior admits she is addicted to the beverage.This trend of young coffee lovers is not just confined to the teenage crowd. It includes younger adolescents.I had one mother who would intercept and get a Coffee Coolatt a and a bagel from Dunkin Donuts for breakfast for her son every(prenominal) day on the way to school, said Debbie Donovan, a pediatric dietician at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. That was his breakfast and he wouldnt have anything else. She couldnt chip off it. He was in the 8-10 age group.Marissa*, 16, from Burlington also began drinking coffee when she was 10. She feels she is now addicted and couldnt stop drinking it if she had to.