24 Jul 2019

Richard Beddie: age limit on energy drinks to tackle obesity

From Afternoons, 1:53 pm on 24 July 2019

Exercise New Zealand CEO Richard Beddie's calling on our government to follow the U.K's move to put an age restriction on energy drinks. They've changed the law to mean that under 16 year olds are now not able to buy the caffeinated sugar loaded beverages. He explains why this goes a long way to tackling the obesity epidemic.

Energy drink cans.

Photo: Mauro Matacchione