Kids may like video gaming, but health experts fret about the 'fuel' they may be using to 'win'
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Video gaming supplements promise enhanced performance, focus and even success, yet they contain caffeine — too much of which can have harmful effects on young people. Health experts weighed in.
In 2017, 16-year-old Davis Allen Cripe of South Carolina consumed a large Diet Mountain Dew, a café latte from McDonald’s and an energy drink all in a span of two hours, later collapsing and dying from a "caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia," as Fox News Digital reported in May 2017. (Fox News is not aware of whether Cripe had any other medical conditions that may have contributed to his death.) Too much gaming, too much caffeine and too little sleep can be a "trifecta" of bad and potentially dangerous habits, said one health expert. "Sleep is not only restorative for the body. Important functions occur during sleep that are crucial to brain development, maturity, memory and emotional regulation" "Although many people believe caffeine is simply a stimulant, the truth is it's much more than that." "Parents, talk with your kids." Deirdre Reilly is a senior editor in lifestyle with Fox News Digital.
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