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Originally Posted by Black Cat
Apparently a study has been done that shows eating candy as a child leads to violent behaviour as an adult. I've been considering writing a paper on this, but I would first like to hear people's opinion on it.
True? False? Needs more research? Full of bologna?
http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...927347,00.html |
Well, first we'd have to find out if those same adults were violent as children. If not, then give them some candy as adults and see if that levels them out. They may just be raging from sugar fits.
Society has always been trying to point its finger at "that one cause".
In the past it was comic books, films, television, video games, sugar, lack of sugar, ADD / ADHD, drugs, boredom, etc. that were each blamed for violent behaviour.
In reality no two people are alike. Sure, a certain number will have been influenced by any one of those things I've listed. But of those, many would have been triggered or affected later in life by something else.
Violent behaviour in adults has been noticed for centuries. A high sugar diet for children, however, is fairly recent. It may have caused changes in a few people, but for the most part I don't think that it really makes a difference in the grand scheme of things.
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