Is Soda Making Our Children More Aggressive?:
According a new study out of Columbia University, children who drank soft drinks every day were more likely to become violent, hurting other children and destroying things.
Researchers tracked 3,000 children since their births. Nearly 40 percent drank four or more sodas a day. Some who drank just one soda a day even showed more aggressive behaviors.
KOLR10 News spoke to one local pediatrician who said the study is not exactly conclusive.
“They haven’t looked at what it is in the soda that’s causing that, whether it’s the sugar or the caffeine or exactly what is involved,” says Dr. Ashley Merrick with Mercy.
The story doesn’t link to the study itself, but I wonder how they controlled for other environmental factors, such as what kind of parents allow their kids to drink four or more sodas a day?
