Soft drinks may cause aggressive child behavior

All children were enrolled in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study – a cohort study that follows mothers and children from 20 large cities in the US. The researchers asked the mothers of the children to report their child’s soft drink consumption. The study results found that any level of soft drink consumption was […]

All children were enrolled in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study – a cohort study that follows mothers and children from 20 large cities in the US. The researchers asked the mothers of the children to report their child’s soft drink consumption. The study results found that any level of soft drink consumption was linked to higher levels of aggressive behavior, as well as more attention and withdrawal problems. Compared with children who did not consume any soft drinks, those who had four or more soft drinks a day were over twice as likely to destroy other people’s belongings, physically attack others, and get into fights.