![]() Vitamins (B2, B5, B3, Maganese, Potassium).Increase in Physical ability/performance.Below are some more benefits I found on the beverage Also, coffee is known to increase metabolic rate and help us run fat. From a domino effect, wakefulness you get from coffee improves brain function. Should I keep drinking coffee? Aside from the fact that coffee gives an individual alertness to go about their day, there are many benefits that coffee provides. What I think is: What if the supposed stunt in growth from coffee was simply due to our lack of sleep? Little to no sleep may mean that our growth hormone is suppressed! I may be completely wrong. (Lauren F Friedman) With caffeine, a person does not feel the effects of dreariness. Caffeine is extremely similar to the shape of adenosine, so it has the capability of binding to the receptors in your brain. That’s the reason why we drink coffee right? Well, our sleepiness actually is the product of a molecule called adenosine, “which is produced by your body while it chugs along through the day.” (Lauren F Friedman) During rest, there is a decline in concentration of the molecule and during alertness/when we wake up, there is a smaller concentration. In an article I found, it states that “coffee does contain caffeine, which stimulates the central nervous system.” (Owen Bond) It can be mutually agreed upon that caffeine wakes us up. How I think coffee can stunt your growth: In my first paragraph, I explained how there is no real evidence that supports whether coffee can stunt your growth. What if in fact caffeine does stunt growth? The subjects in which effected will be permanently impaired of what their height could be. Also, another issue with my intended trial would be ethics. What if a kid’s genes is free from the side effects of caffeine? What if there was a certain activity that made them stunt their growth instead? Though sample size is important to eliminate chance and some variables, it cannot cancel all variables. My experiment does not eliminate the factors of confounding variables. ![]() I am not saying my experiment is flawless, for it is not. After a certain amount and time, I would measure them. I would have half my adolescent subjects take a varied amount of caffeine, while the other half take a placebo. What I would do: In order to find out if coffee truly stunts growth, there will need to be a double blind randomized control trial. Yes, the article may claim there is no correlation, but even if the information in the study was valid, there is no evidence that definitively prove coffee does not stunt growth. This experiment could be prone to the Texas Sharpshooter or file drawer problem! Who knows, maybe a coffee company put those results and ignored those that went against its null hypothesis. All of them cited each other in that there was a study that tested 81 adolescent teens. However, all the articles did not have a legitimate source as to where they got this study. Gavin) I searched for the people who conducted the research, hoping to validate these results. Gavin) The groups were given 25mg of caffeine per day to double, (50mg) of caffeine per day. Within those six years, researchers found no difference “bone gain or density than those with the lowest.” (Mary L. In this study, 81 female subjects from the ages 10-19 were tracked for six years. I decided to google search “Does coffee stunt growth?” To my delight, the first article search I found was a study. My question is: Does coffee stunt growth? What are the pros and cons of the popular beverage? Should I cancel my Starbucks card? I decided to investigate this topic, for coffee seems to be a new addiction everyone has in the US. Everyone told me, “Coffee will stunt your growth!” Fast forward to college, I have met people who cannot go a day without their Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. I cannot recall when, but ever since I was young, I was discouraged to consume coffee.
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