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Do fizzy drinks make teenagers more likely to carry a gun?
25 October 2011
A new study links fizzy drink consumption to violent behaviour in teenagers, but there are many other factors not taken into account.Today’s papers report a study published in the journal Injury Prevention which suggests ‘there may be a direct cause-effect relationship between soft drinks and violence’ in teenagers who consume more than 5 cans of fizzy drink a week. Read what Peter Kinderman had to say on the limitations of this study in our `For the Record' piece.
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