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Energy drink impact

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:59 am
by asimj1
A ban on sales would be maximally effective if it were coupled with minimum-pricing strategies, placement restrictions and a communications campaign detailing their harmful effects.

We encourage all parties to make banning laos rcs data the sale of energy drinks an election promise, alongside other food policies, that will comprehensively tackle poor diet and reduce health inequalities.

Concerns about energy drink intake among children and young people have been growing, as have the number of products and size of the industry.

With colleagues at the University of Southampton, I led an investigation into whether energy drink intake differs between children and young people from poorer and wealthier families.

The study used data on 2,587 participants from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), collected between 2008 and 2016. Each participant, aged 11 to 18 years, completed a food diary for four days providing information about what they ate and drank.