Children and coffee..... is any amount Okay?

According to a new study by Boston Medical Center, about 15 % of 2-year-olds drink as much as four ounces of coffee a day
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    Between 2% to 3% of the infants studied were drinking coffee. At two, that number grew to 15 %. drinking on average a little more than an ounce of coffee a day.

“Our results show that many infants and toddlers in Boston – and perhaps in the US – are being given coffee and that this could be associated with cultural practices,” said Dr. Anne Merewood, director of the Breastfeeding Center at BMC and associate professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine.

   Official guidelines for children’s coffee consumption is lacking, but there are some alarming potential health effects. Previous hospital studies have shown that coffee and caffeine have been associated with depression, type 1 diabetes, sleep disturbances, substance abuse and obesity in children and adolescents.

Another study found that 2-year-olds who drank coffee or tea had three times the risk of being obese in kindergarten, according to the hospital.
   The study looked at 315 pairs of mothers and infants, and researchers said they were “surprised” to find that many mothers reported giving their babies coffee.

Children of Hispanic mothers and mothers of baby girls were more likely to report the coffee consumption, the study found.
It’s not that uncommon for mothers in other countries to give children coffee, the hospital noted.

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