Posted on 04/30/2014 1:52:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono
ITHACA, N.Y.,Researchers at Cornell University conducted a study about biting versus chewing habits in children and found that kids who eat chicken on the bone are more likely to disobey adults and be aggressive.
The study, which was published in Eating Behaviors, found that children were “twice as likely to disobey adults and twice as aggressive toward other kids” when eating food they had to hold and bite.
Researches found that children were more docile when eating cut-up pieces of food, results which would seem to indicate that there is a connection between having to use teeth to eat and aggressive behavior.
Not everyone agrees with the study’s findings.
“I think people have been eating chicken wings, chicken drumsticks for a millennia and I don’t think it’s made them any more aggressive than they otherwise would have been,” clinical psychologist Dr. Brian Russell told Fox News.
The children that the researchers studied were between the ages of 6 and 10.
Ping.
Yes because we would t want any more real Americans when we can have sissy wusses now, right?
I don’t know which is stranger, getting a generous research grant to study this topic, or getting it published in a scientific journal.
Our of curiosity, I looked up the journal:
Eating Behaviors
An International Journal
Eating Behaviors is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing human research on the etiology, prevention, and treatment of obesity, binge eating, and eating disorders in adults and children...
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Edited by: P.M. Miller
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http://www.journals.elsevier.com/eating-behaviors/
They must have cut the puppies up in little pieces for him to eat.
WTF, who thinks this crap up?
This is one of those studies that is so stupid from the outset that you know its only being done because of the ‘researchers’ agenda.
Just as clear is what the findings of the study will be, before it ever starts.
I’m with ya. Smiling makes ya happier, and I wouldn’t be surprised if really biting into stuff makes you more aggressive.
Pass the wings!
Just came from KFC and I ate to the bones and this is BS.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll start beating people up...
Shouldn’t someone post a City of Evil alert with those smurfs?
In any case, this is hilarious!
So what did I wish for?? Bigger muscles so I could beat my brother up??
I read about a lot of stupid, baseless studies in my more than half century but this one takes the cake!
Sad...because my granddaughter is thinking of Cornell for her graduate work.
Well, I think the legitimacy of the study hangs on one question. Were the chickens still moving?
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