Pros And Cons Of Drinking Coffee Essay

I am 4 foot 9 and a half and drink coffee often, and very often a prideful local walks over to me and tells me you shouldn’t be drinking coffee you know it stunts your growth right, and when people make such a snarky comment it just makes me want to burst because I know for a fact that coffee does not stunt your growth and your height is determined by your diet and your genes, and the only reason I am relatively short is because my mom is only 5 foot 2 yet some still seem to think that I and many others are wrong when all we are doing is enjoying a nice cup of joe. Coffee is a brewed drink very common in many countries made from beans from the coffea plant that are picked once ripe and then made into a powder or mix ready to be brewed or sometimes

The New York Times takes on the controversial myth and proves that coffee does not stunt your growth based on what they found that “Another study tracked 81 adolescents for six years and found that those who had the highest daily caffeine intake had no difference in bone gain or bone density at the end of the study than those with the lowest”(O’Connor). Once again yet another study showed that even when scientists tracked 81 adolescents with and without high daily intakes of caffeine and or coffee (the center of the argument), there was an end result of virtually no change in bone gain or bone density, which just reproved the fact that coffee does not stunt your growth. For parents to pass down a myth like this and have it continue to circulate everywhere you go even when the first thing that comes up when you google if coffee stunts your growth or not is no it does not is simply absurd. For those of us to be stuck our entire lives ignoring science and being terrified to drink coffee as a 14 year old is almost as silly as a teen being terrified to eat watermelon because they think that if they swallow one tiny little seed a plant will “grow” in their stomachs, when in reality if you swallow a watermelon seed it will simply pass through your digestive system just like every other food you digest, and similar to the watermelon seed myth the myth that coffee stunts your growth is simply silly because it has been proven one to many times that it does not and the next generations need to know the