Study Links Kids And Candy To Violent Behavior

CBS 2 CHICAGO ^ | 13 APRIL 2010 | CBS 2 CHICAGO

[dr_who]

More bullshit masquerading as science.

[Doc Savage]

So that’s why I’m a serial killer! Who knew???

[KevinDavis]

Guess what is coming.. The same crap they did to cigarettes..

[TornadoAlley3]

[EGPWS]

Children of the “candy” corn.

[Retain Mike]

Now I understand. It is all that dark chocolate that made me get a concealed carry permit and accumulate 20 firearms in my gun safe.

[Red in Blue PA]

Sounds like another example of grant money needing to fund something with this as the result.

What a waste.

The sad part is tha the PI’s of the study are probably proud and patting themselves on their back.

[SkyDancer]

And those really violent cartoons from Warner Bros.

[Julia H.]

Let me guess: by “links,” they mean “correlates.”

[hinckley buzzard]

This sugar crap was thoroughly discredited thirty years ago. Surprised to find it gaining new life under similarly useless, anecdotal BS circumstances.

Sugar is the energy you need to live. Deal with it. It isn't the devil's brew.

[JoeProBono]

[Porterville]

Always made me fat, lazy, and a big pussy... (cat)

[livius]

Oh please. This has come around again. Every hippie parent I knew back in the 70s would declare that her little darling had been driven crazy by somebody waving a cookie under his nose. Actually, he was a brat to begin with because he had never been disciplined, was never expected to sit still and like listen to his mother read to him, was never expected to learn even basic manners such as saying “Thank you,” and was essentially being brought up as a feral child.

Many modern parents have turned their children over to paid child-minders who speak about five words of English (their native languages vary, but the less English they speak, the cheaper they are), and then the parents try to blame the fact that their kids are dysfunctional brats on the fact that they may have consumed a food that had a teaspoon of sugar in it.

[FrdmLvr]

These guys were going to be the ruin of my generation:

[DustyMoment]

Study Links Kids And Candy To Violent Behavior

BS!!!!

[boatbums]

I can say from personal experience as an elementary school teacher, that certain students - not all, of course - behaved better in class when they had less sugar in their diets.

A case in point was one first-grader I had who could not keep still in class. He often got out of his seat, spoke out during class, couldn't concentrate on lessons and had the same kind of “hyperactivity” at home according to his mom. I took note of his lunch he brought most days and it was usually a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread, cookies and kool-aid. I suggested that his mom just try sending a lunch meat sandwich on whole wheat, an apple and milk and to watch his sweets at home as well. He changed almost within a day or two. He could control himself during class, he started to learn and his mom told me she could see the difference as well.

Now, I don't claim to be a doctor or nutritionist, but if that kid could respond like that so quickly with a simple change in diet, I think many more may benefit as well. Besides, we all know what is healthy eating even when we are grownups. How much more so a child who is still developing?

[SkyDancer]

Oh yeah, them guys - whoo hoo, Hey Larry!!! What????

[Raycpa]

Its not exactly the sugar, its the low blood sugar caused by insulin fluctuations on account of the excess sugar.

[dr_who]

Yeah, twenty years from now, the feds will be battling violent gangs of black market chocolate smugglers from Mexico!