If you wonder what kinds of beverages you should allow your kids to drink, a report published Monday morning in the journal Pediatrics makes things crystal clear: That’s just one of many useful nuggets of information from the report’s informative review of sports and energy drinks, the differences between the two and the way they should and, more important, shouldn’t be consumed. In short, the report, by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition and the Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness, notes that sports drinks and energy drinks are not interchangeable and that most kids shouldn’t drink either of them, ever. Read full article >>