Medical professionals are sounding alarms over “gaming supplements” — products marketed to video gamers of all ages — that promise to “fuel” their gaming and supposedly allow the users to play longer, focus more intensely and achieve better results.
These products contain caffeine, which — if consumed in too great a quantity — may be harmful for children or teens.
In 2017, 16-year-old Davis Allen Cripe of South Carolina consumed a large Diet Mountain Dew, a café latte from McDonald’s and an energy drink all in a span of two hours, later collapsing and dying from a “caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia,” as Fox News Digital reported in May 2017. (Fox News is not aware of whether Cripe had any other medical conditions that may have contributed to his death.)
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One popular brand of gaming supplement on the market today is G FUEL. The marketing for the “energy formula” often reflects the language of young gamers.
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