New Study Suggests Soda is Linked to Aggressive Behavior in 5-Year-Olds

Captain Obvious here to tell you what parents already know: soda is bad for kids.

But just how bad is it? A new study published last week by the Journal of Pediatrics measured soda intake among 5-year-olds from nearly 3,000 families residing in urban areas and found that 5-year-olds who consumed one or more servings of soda a day exhibited more aggressive and distracted behavior than their non-soda drinking peers. In fact, the levels of these undesirable behaviors directly correlated with the amount of soda consumed…[read more]