East Meadow PTA ACCESS workshop to focus on caffeine consumption

The East Meadow Parent Teacher Association’s ACCESS committee will present a discussion on the effects of caffeine consumption on students.

The presentation will take place on Tuesday, March 31, from 7 to 9 p.m., in the Leon J. Campo Salisbury Center at 718 the Plain Road in Westbury. The speakers will be Kristi Detor, the district’s director of athletics, physical education and health, and Dr. Rupi Johan, a primary care sports medicine physician at Winthrop Orthopedics.

Project ACCESS, an acronym for A Community Committed to Educating Students for Success, is an extension of the PTA Council, which sponsors educational workshops for parents throughout the school year.

The workshop will discuss not only the effects of coffee, but energy drinks, soda, and snacks that are high in caffeine. The discussion will focus on the abundance of caffeine in the typical student’s diet, something of which many parents are unaware of, and can lead to a caffeine dependency.