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ontheway
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 Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:38 am Post subject: A Spoon Full of Sugar leads to a life of violent crime ... |
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Candy every day turns your kids into violent criminals.
Eating Candy in Childhood Linked to Adult Crime
By ALICE PARK Alice Park � Sat Oct 3, 1:20 am ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091003/hl_time/08599192734700
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| ....Moore turned to the British Cohort Study, a long-term survey of 17,000 people born during a one-week period in April 1970. That study included periodic evaluations of many different aspects of the growing children's lives, such as what they ate, certain health measures and socioeconomic status. Moore plumbed the data for information on kids' diet and their later behavior: at age 10, the children were asked how much candy they consumed, and at age 34, they were questioned about whether they had been convicted of a crime. Moore's analysis suggests a correlation: 69% of people who had been convicted of a violent act by age 34 reported eating candy almost every day as youngsters; 42% of people who had not been arrested for violent behavior reported the same. "Initially we thought this [effect] was probably due to something else," says Moore. "So we tried to control for parental permissiveness, economic status, whether the kids were urban or rural. But the result remained. We couldn't get rid of it." |
Interesting. Bullies with lollies. Needs more research of course.
Note to teachers: Please don't try to motivate or control your students with candy. You could be creating the violent criminals of the future. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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I read this story a few days ago. Another good reason to deny my children the many icecreams and chocolate bars they demand everytime we go out.
I wonder, do you think it is socialism that has promoted a diet high in sugar?  |
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OneWayTraffic
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Sigh. Unless I misread that excerpt they are showing a link between eating candy and crime. That does not show a causative effect. Perhaps B is causing A or A and B are both caused by a third factor? (A brain craving some kind of stimulation perhaps?) |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| OneWayTraffic wrote: |
| Sigh. Unless I misread that excerpt they are showing a link between eating candy and crime. That does not show a causative effect. Perhaps B is causing A or A and B are both caused by a third factor? (A brain craving some kind of stimulation perhaps?) |
They propose a theory in that, or another article that I read, that it might be that people become accustomed to instant gratification, instead of having to wait for a treat.
Whether the theory is bunkum or not, it does appear that sugar destroys long complex molecules, and is thus a serious hazard to the body's basic building blocks, which is the main reason I am wary of my children eating too much of the stuff. |
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proustme
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Homer of the Odyssey said, "most men are unable to avoid the pleasures of instant gratification for their long term benefit." |
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mateomiguel
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there any child in the world who has not eaten candy? Its like saying 100% of pedophiles breathe air on a regular basis, therefore oxygen causes kiddy-fiddling. its complete bull-dong! |
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Hater Depot
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| OneWayTraffic wrote: |
| Sigh. Unless I misread that excerpt they are showing a link between eating candy and crime. That does not show a causative effect. Perhaps B is causing A or A and B are both caused by a third factor? (A brain craving some kind of stimulation perhaps?) |
The authors of the study discuss this in the article. They tried controlling for various factors but still found the link. Various theories were proposed and they hope to do further research. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| mateomiguel wrote: |
| Is there any child in the world who has not eaten candy? Its like saying 100% of pedophiles breathe air on a regular basis, therefore oxygen causes kiddy-fiddling. its complete bull-dong! |
Well, the study isn't just about eating candy, it's about eating candy nearly every day. According to their numbers a strong majority of violent criminals ate candy nearly every day during their childhood, while only a minority of non-criminals did. Assuming their study was sound and their numbers aren't being twisted, there's definitely grounds for further research regarding this. |
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djsmnc
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| I ate a ton of candy as a kid and I suppose I still have a few years to commit a violent act |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| When I was growing up, it was almost an article of faith that sugar made children hyperactive. But I seem to recall later reading that this was a pseudo-scientific fad theory. I've never heard it claimed that sugar makes adults hyperactive(in the way that coffee obviously does) so I wonder why it would have that effect on children, but not on adults. |
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ontheway
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| OneWayTraffic wrote: |
| Sigh. Unless I misread that excerpt they are showing a link between eating candy and crime. That does not show a causative effect. Perhaps B is causing A or A and B are both caused by a third factor? (A brain craving some kind of stimulation perhaps?) |
Agreed.
This is an interesting correlation, but it needs a lot more study.
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I read this story a few days ago. Another good reason to deny my children the many icecreams and chocolate bars they demand everytime we go out.
I wonder, do you think it is socialism that has promoted a diet high in sugar? |
... and someone somewhere will soon use this study to demand that the government preemptively step in to force some kind of intervention on children who eat candy every day. They will want to create a new department of nutritional psychiatry - another, medling group of socialist "professionals" on the dole.
(I worked the "socialism" in just for you BB.) |
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