Aggression in Children Who Drink Lots of Soda
09/23/2013
Aggression in Children Who Drink Lots of Soda.
Hello, and welcome to As It Is -- VOA’s daily show for people learning American English.
I’m Christopher Cruise in Washington.
Today on the program, we tell about the high economic cost of heavy drinking.
“…a number of people die of alcohol-attributable conditions. And many of those folks die in the prime of their life.”
But first, we have a report on aggression seen in children who drink a lot of soda.
Some Children Who Drink a Lot of Soda Get Aggressive
A new study found evidence of aggressive behavior in children who have four or more servings of soft drinks every day.
Bob Doughty reports.
Information for the study came from the mothers of 3,000 five-year-olds. Researchers asked the women to keep a record of how many servings of soft drinks their children drank over a two-month period. The women were also asked to complete a checklist of their children’s behavior.
The researchers found that 43 percent of the boys and girls drank at least one daily serving of soda. Four percent of the youngsters had four or more sodas to drink every day.
Shakira Suglia is with Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. She worked on the study with researchers from the University of Vermont and Harvard University School of Public Health. She says they found that children who drank the most soda were more than two times as likely as those who drank no soda to show signs of aggression.
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