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Coffee is widely used because of its energizing and sweet aroma. For many of you, when you were growing up, you might have heard this from your parents when you tried to sip their coffee when you were a child. <\/span><\/p>\n

They took advantage of this saying to shield their coffee. That coffee will stunt your growth. And, now that you have grown up, it is clear whether this statement was true or just manipulation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Many advertisements in that error also portrayed the same information about coffee. They linked coffee with low absorption of calcium in the body, and calcium is used in the formation of bones, leading to short children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coffee is the most consumed caffeine beverage among the elderly and the second most consumed beverage among adolescents and youths after energy drinks. <\/span><\/p>\n

If coffee, as said, causes stunt growth, with such a high consumption among the youths, it shows that we will have a lot of short human beings in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n

To answer the question of whether coffee causes stunt growth with one word, it is a NO. However, there are other health effects associated with drinking excessive caffeine in children and young people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where did the idea come from?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Like when there is a new phenomenon in society, people start speculating about it to fill the information gap that they have. <\/span><\/p>\n

The same applies to a new product when introduced to the market. The competitors will take advantage of that knowledge gap and create myths that discourage the product’s consumption in the market. And those were the main source of the myths about coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n

When coffee was introduced into the market, it was given a bad reputation because it was a stimulant. And this made many leaders ban coffee consumption in their regions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The myths are also believed to have originated from C.W. Post, the creator of the Post cereals. The purpose of creating this myth was out of business interest to subdue the competition from the coffee in the market. <\/span><\/p>\n

Post was manufacturing a cereal-based drink known as Postum, which they claimed was a caffeine-free beverage. <\/span><\/p>\n

They were trying to persuade the population that the Postum drink was friendly to children while attacking coffee. <\/span><\/p>\n

He proposed that coffee had many negative health effects on the children, such as tiredness and irritability that made the children fail in their academics and stunt the growth and development of bones. <\/span><\/p>\n

Since the coffee was new in the market and no research had been done, people believed in that advertisement and held to it that coffee stunted growth and was good for consumption by children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Does coffee stunt your growth?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

So let us look at the truth, does coffee stunt your growth? we are going to look at what scientists say and what experts say.<\/span><\/p>\n

What does science say?<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

According to the ancient research by the scientist, it claimed that absorption of caffeine in the body, which is in coffee, could lead to:<\/span><\/p>\n