Comments on: Does Soda Rot Your Brains? https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/does-soda-rot-your-brains/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gwern https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/does-soda-rot-your-brains/comment-page-1/#comment-950350 Gwern Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:38:49 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32627#comment-950350 “Perhaps the most interesting bit of the study is that fruit juice consumption was correlated with less aggression and candy with mildly increased aggression, so sugar itself is clearly not the whole story here.”

That’s pretty telling. It’s easy to see soda consumption as a proxy for being a bad mother or in a bad family — who thinks soda is A-OK for kids these days? — and what would a “good” mother do? Feed her kids juice rather than soda — even if actually they have very similar sugar contents. And what might a “bad” mother also do besides feed her kid soda? Feed them pure-sugar treats like candy.

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