There are many reasons to be thankful forcoffee.
But there isonething that coffee gets a bad rap for stunting growth, of children specifically.
Why do parents think coffee stunts their children’s growth?
Smithsoniansays we may have C.W.
Post the breakfast cereal manufacturer) to thank for the modern-day myth about coffee and growth.
Pendergrast says, “Postum made C.W.
Postum advertisers had all kinds of pseudoscientific reasons that you should stay away from coffee.”
The anti-coffee rhetoric continued even after C.W.
Post died in 1914, making its way into popular folklore.
