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Drinking pop tied to aggression in 5-year-olds

"Drinking several servings of soda a day is associated with behaviour problems such as aggression, a new study of preschoolers suggests.

"When researchers looked at 2,929 children in the U.S., they found 43 per cent of parents said their child had at least one serving of soda a day and four per cent had four or more servings daily.

"In this large sample of five-year-old urban U.S. children, we found strong and consistent relationships between soda consumption and a range of problem behaviours, consistent with the findings of previous studies in adolescents,"...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/08/15/pop-behaviour-problem-children.html

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