Too many soft drinks make child aggressive
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MUMBAI: Young children who have more than four soft drinks a day are twice as likely to destroy things belonging to others, get into fights and physically attack people.
This is the conclusion of a new research by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health that has been published in The Journal of Pediatrics. Stating that Americans buy more soft drinks per capita than people in any other countries, the study said that aggression, attention problems, and withdrawal behavior are all associated with soft drink consumption in young children.
Shakira Suglia and colleagues assessed approximately 3,000 5-year-old children enrolled in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a study that follows mother-child pairs from 20 large US cities. Mothers reported their child's soft drink consumption and completed the child behavior checklist based on their child's behavior during the previous two months. The researchers found that 43% of the children consumed at least 1 serving of soft drinks per day, and 4% consumed 4 or more.
Aggression, withdrawal, and attention problems were associated with soda consumption. ``Children who drank 4 or more soft drinks per day were more than twice as likely to destroy things belonging to others, get into fights, and physically attack people,'' said the study. They also had increased attention problems and withdrawal behavior compared with those who did not consume soft drinks.
"We found that the child's aggressive behavior score increased with every increase in soft drinks servings per day," said Dr Suglia.
This is the conclusion of a new research by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health that has been published in The Journal of Pediatrics. Stating that Americans buy more soft drinks per capita than people in any other countries, the study said that aggression, attention problems, and withdrawal behavior are all associated with soft drink consumption in young children.
Shakira Suglia and colleagues assessed approximately 3,000 5-year-old children enrolled in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a study that follows mother-child pairs from 20 large US cities. Mothers reported their child's soft drink consumption and completed the child behavior checklist based on their child's behavior during the previous two months. The researchers found that 43% of the children consumed at least 1 serving of soft drinks per day, and 4% consumed 4 or more.
Aggression, withdrawal, and attention problems were associated with soda consumption. ``Children who drank 4 or more soft drinks per day were more than twice as likely to destroy things belonging to others, get into fights, and physically attack people,'' said the study. They also had increased attention problems and withdrawal behavior compared with those who did not consume soft drinks.
"We found that the child's aggressive behavior score increased with every increase in soft drinks servings per day," said Dr Suglia.
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