Saturday, May 30, 2009

Many teens wired, caffeinated well past bedtime

By Anne Harding


NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Caffeine-fueled teens are texting, Web-surfing and gaming for hours into the night, which is affecting their alertness and ability to function during the day, a new study in Pediatrics shows.

"They're up at night and they're dong a lot less homework than we thought and a lot more multitasking," Dr. Christina J. Calamaro of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the lead researcher on the study, told Reuters Health.

http://health.yahoo.com/news/reuters/us_teens_wired.html

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