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Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-like-alcohol-and-teenagers dept.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Shakira F. Suglia and co-authors surveyed 2,929 mothers of five-year-olds (PDF) and found that 43 percent of the kids consumed at least one serving of soft drinks per day. About four percent of those children (or 110 of them), drank more than four soft drinks per day, and became 'more than twice as likely to destroy things belonging to others, get into fights, and physically attack people.' In the past, soda and its various strains have been related to depression, irritability, aggression, suicidal thoughts, and delusions of sweepstake-winning grandeur. Of course, this study didn't find out what types of soda the children had consumed."

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  1. Scientists finally discover... by sinij · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientists finally discover sugar high, new at 11!

    1. Re:Scientists finally discover... by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

      As a treat I'll get the kids a cinnamon role

      And how do they act?

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  2. Great by Longjmp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, this study didn't find out what types of soda the children had consumed.

    Another study finds that living children are 100% more likely to "destroy things belonging to others, get into fights, and physically attack people" than dead children.

    cheez.

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    There are fewer illiterates than people who can't read.
  3. Re:Correlation does not imply causation by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bad parenting causes soda? There must be some seriously bad parenting going on in soda factories; I've seen truckloads of that stuff being hauled out of there.

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    Ezekiel 23:20
  4. Re:Correlation != Causality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You wouldn't be wrong. Neuter them and take away their oxygen, and they will no longer break things.