Sales of energy drinks to under-16s will be BANNED in new bid to improve concentration in schools

In order to combat obesity and increase the concentration in schools, children will be banned from buying high caffeine energy drinks.

The government plans to sell energy drinks with more than 150 mg caffeine per liter to sell to anyone under the age of 16.

Online is available in shops, restaurants, cafes and vending machines in the UK.

Low caffeine soft drinks such as Coca-Kola, Koka-Kola zero, diet cola and pepsi are not affected and not tea and coffee.

However, all brands such as Red Bull, Monster, Agency and Prime violate the limit.

It is thought that approximately 100,000 children consume at least one high caffeine energy drink every day.

Ministers say that a ban can prevent obesity up to 40,000 children, and will help prevent impaired sleep, increased anxiety and lack of concentration, and worse school consequences.

Obesity Health Alliance Director Katharine Jenner welcomed the movement: ‘High caffeine energy drinks have no place in the hands of children.

Ministers hope that the ban will improve the performance of children at school (stock image)

‘This is a discreet, evidence -based step to protect children’s physical, mental and dental health.

‘Such sales age policies have a proven record of reducing access to non -appropriate products for children and will help create an environment that supports healthier choices for future generations.’

Great supermarkets, including Tesco, Sinsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrison and ASDA, stopped the sale of drinks to young people.

However, the Ministry of Health and Social Care, said that some small markets still sell to children, he said.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: ‘How can we expect children to be successful in school if there are double espresso equivalents in their systems?

‘Energy drinks may seem harmless, but while the sleep, concentration and prosperity of today’s children, high sugar versions damage their teeth and contribute to obesity.

As a part of our plan to prevent the transition from change and treatment to prevention, we act on the concerns of parents and teachers and discuss the main reasons for bad health and education gain.

‘We help to improve the foundations of healthier and happier generations by preventing shops from selling these drinks to children.’

Great supermarkets, including Tesco, Sinsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons and ASDA, left the sales of drinks to young people

A newly released advice will continue for 12 weeks to collect evidence from health and training experts, retailers, producers, local enforcement leaders and public.

Drinks containing more than 150 mg of caffeine per liter should carry warning labels that are not recommended for children.

Gavin Partington, General Manager of the British Association for non -alcoholic beverages, said that companies have not marketed or introduce drinks under the age of 16.

Authority added: ‘Our members have pioneered self -regulation through our long -standing energy beverages application code.

‘Our members do not marke or encourage the sale of energy drinks under 16 years of age, and all high caffeine beverages are not recommended for children’, in accordance with the spirit of this code and do not label it in the soul.

‘As in all government policy, it is important that any upcoming regulation is based on a meticulous assessment of the existing evidence.’

The Ministry of Health and Social Care consumed one or more high caffeine energy drinks every week, about one quarter of children between the ages of 13 and 16 years and between the ages of 11 to 12 years.

57 studies, including more than 1.2 million children, have previously reported that a systematic examination, energy drinks consumption and increased headache, irritation, fatigue and stomach pain, sleep time and quality, stress, anxiety and depression, such as emotional difficulty, such as a connection between the risk of emotional difficulty reported.

Teachers agreed that high caffeine energy beverage consumption negatively affects the health and prosperity of students in their schools or strongly accepted.

Last year, 82 percent of parents who responded to an educational department survey reported that they are concerned about the potential negative effects of high caffeine energy drink consumption on children.

61 percent of teachers accepted or agreed that high caffeine energy beverage consumption negatively affected the health and prosperity of students in schools.

Training Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: ‘This government inherited a scourge of the bad class behaviors that undermine the learning of too many children caused by the harmful effects of caffeine -charged beverages, and today’s announcement, another step of handling this heritage’.

Professor Steve Turner, President of Royal Pediatrics and Child Health College, said: ‘Pediatricians, children or young people do not need energy drinks.

‘Young people take their energy from sleep, a healthy balanced diet, regular exercise and meaningful connection with family and friends.

‘There is no evidence that caffeine or other stimuli provide any nutrition or developmental benefits in these products, in fact, it points to serious risks for research and mental health.

‘Prohibiting the sale of these products under the age of 16 is the next logical step in making the diet of our nation’s children healthier.’

Teesside University Public Health Nutrition Professor Amelia Lake, “Our research has shown important mental and physical health results of children who drink energy drinks.

‘We have reviewed the evidence from all over the world and showed that these drinks have no place in children’s diets.’

Carrera, which is the youth-led group bite, which are campaigns for changes in making, marketing and selling unhealthy foods, Carrera said: ‘Energy drinks have become the social currency of the playground-brightly packaged and easily purchased than water.

Despite serious health risks, they were particularly aggressively online.

‘Especially during the exam season, we feel under pressure to drink, where the stress is high and healthier options.

‘This prohibition is a step in the right direction, but it should follow bold actions in marketing and access.’

Food, farming and health organizations alliance in the Children’s Food Campaign in Surder, Barbara Crowther, drinks ‘sports and impressives through the branded and marketed to appeal to young people and shops, cafes and automators are very easily purchased by children,’ he said.

Professor Tracy Daszkiewicz, President of the Faculty of Public Health, said: ‘Mounting evidence shows that high caffeine energy drinks damage the health of children in the UK, especially the health of those who have higher obesity and other health problems.

‘We welcome this public health intervention in order to limit access to these beverages and to support the physical and mental welfare of our young people.’

London Queen Mary University, Head of Research and Impact on Sugar. Kawther Hashem said: ‘We strongly meet the government’s consultation on a ban on sales age for high caffeine energy drinks under the age of 16.

‘These beverages should not be unnecessary, harmful and never found so easy for children.

‘Free candies in these products increase the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay, while high caffeine content can damage the mental health and welfare of young people.

By enabling the ban between the automators and markets, the government has the chance to close the gaps and make this policy effective.

‘This is an important step that encounters the risk of disease -related disease in protecting children’s health, especially in more deprived communities.

‘However, success will ultimately depend on appropriate application, so that this ban presents protected children to need urgent need.’