Another great research study. We need more and more of these to show how, and why caffeine drinks should DEFINITELY be restricted to all children and adolescents under 16. The habits they are creating are leading to a life time of poor hydration and sweet cravings that once developed and established for many years, become hard to break

Caffeine promotes drink flavor preference in adolescents - Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, indicates that caffeine added to sugar-sweetened, carbonated beverages teaches adolescents to prefer those beverages. Researchers found that the amount of caffeine added to an unfamiliar beverage was correlated with how much teenagers liked that beverage. [Physorg]