Warning: Do not give babies soft drinks

(Americans) - Americans buy more light drinks (non-alcoholic soft drinks) - per capita - than people in any country. These drinks are used by all Americans of all ages, including very young children.

Although the use of soft drinks is related to violence, depression, and thoughts of suicide in adolescence, the relationship has not been evaluated at a younger age. A new study published in The Journal of Pediatrics found that issues of violence, attention span and quarreling are all related to the use of soft drinks in children.

Shakira Suglia, ScD, and colleagues from Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, University of Vermont and Harvard School of Public Health evaluated approximately 3,000 5-year-old children on the list. called Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a group of children was followed along with the study of mother and child couples from 20 major US cities. Mothers reported their child's fresh water use and took a test of their child's behavior based on their child's behavior during the previous two months. The researchers found that 43% of these children drank soft drinks at least once a day and 4% drank four or more times.

Violence, suicidal, and collective problems are related to soda consumption. Even after adjusting the social factors of demographics, mother's depression, domestic violence and father's confinement, any drink of fresh water is associated with violent behavior. increase. Children who drink more than 4 cans of soft drinks / day seem to break things, engage in fighting and attack others twice as much as other children. They also have increased concentration problems and suicidal behaviors compared to those who do not use fresh water.

According to Dr. Suglia: 'We find that the assessment of violence has increased with every drink of soft drinks / day.' Although this study has not been able to determine the exact nature of the association between fresh water use and misconduct, limiting or banning the drinking of children 's soft drinks, it may help reduce problems about their behavior.