The government and other schools should take inspiration from two schools that have banned their students from drinking energy drinks.
The call has come from the British Dental Health Foundation, which wants to see all schools adopting a similar approach to the high-sugar drinks.
Some 500 millilitre energy drinks can contain more than 12 teaspoons of sugar and 160 milligrams of caffeine – the equivalent to four cans of cola.
Ian Fenn, headteacher at Burnage Media College in Manchester, banned the drinks earlier this year when he realised some students were drinking more than one a day.
He told the BBC in January: “We cannot allow boys to bring in drinks that are really unhealthy for them and consume not one, but two or three.”
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