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What's the recent connection between sweets and prison?
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#109323. Asked by Zbeckabee. (Sep 30 09 9:16 PM)
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serpa
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Children who eat too much candy may be more likely to be arrested for violent behavior as adults, new research suggests.
British experts studied more than 17,000 children born in 1970 for about four decades. Of the children who ate candies or chocolates daily at age 10, 69 percent were later arrested for a violent offense by the age of 34. Of those who didn't have any violent clashes, 42 percent ate sweets daily.
 http://www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1775511
I should be serving ten consecutive life sentences!
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daBomb619
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A new study says that eating too much candy can lead to a prison sentence.
"British experts studied more than 17,000 children born in 1970 for about four decades. Of the children who ate candies or chocolates daily at age 10, 69 percent were later arrested for a violent offense by the age of 34. Of those who didn't have any violent clashes, 42 percent ate sweets daily."
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1775511
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Baloo55th
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Of course, it could just be the other way round. Kids who are more likely to offend are more likely to be overdoing the sweets. Rather than the sweets causing the offences. Remember that it's safer to ride in a car if you're not wearing underwear. More than 95% of people in road accidents were wearing underwear at the time. Whenever you see an official statistic, think of this one.
(Baloo ate sweets as often as he could at 10, and hasn't been arrested for violence. Yet.)
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queproblema
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But it could help explain why he has such a fervid imagination! :)
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Oh, dear--Qp believed it!
She was going to say this was the classic "Twinkies Defense," thinking a U.S. court had actually let a murderer off because he was on a sugar high. Not exactly.
"White's [the defendant's] consumption of junk food was presented to the jury as one of many symptoms, and not a cause, of White's depression."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense
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