Soda Consumption Linked To Poor Attention And Bad Behavior

Jeremy Dean: The US researchers found that children who drank more soda were more likely to be aggressive, to have attention problems, to get into fights and to destroy other people’s belongings (Suglia et al., 2013). This backs up findings in adolescents that have linked drinking more soda to self-harm, aggression, depression and even suicidal thoughts (Lien et al., 2006; Solnick & Hemenway, 2013). As Jeremy explains, the study only finds an association rather than a causal relationship between soda...
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