Experts from the Israeli University named after Bar-Ilan found that it is not upbringing that makes a child a bully
Experts from Israel's Bar Ilan University argue that the excess of sweets in the diet of adolescents makes them more aggressive, violent, prone to violence, smoking and alcohol consumption.
Scientists came to this conclusion during the study, which involved 137,200 adolescents aged 11 to 15 years from Canada and 25 European countries. Experts calculated how much sweets the participants ate, how often they fought, smoked and drank.
It turned out that those children who ate a lot of sweets and consumed energy drinks were almost 3.5 times more likely to be classified as "bullies" and showed risky behavior. They got into fights twice as often and got drunk 95% more often. If the child, who often ate sweets, also preferred energy drinks, the situation worsened. According to scientists, it's all about caffeine, which is contained in energy drinks.
How much sugar can children eat?
The amount of sugar a person should eat per day depends on how old they are.
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Children aged 4 to 6 should be limited to a maximum of 19 grams per day.
Children aged 7-10 should consume no more than 24 grams, and children aged 11 and older should consume 30 grams or less.
Popular sweets and soda contain an incredible amount of sugar - in a can of cola - 35 g, in a Mars bar - 33 g. This is more than the daily allowance for a child of any age.
A bowl of ready-made breakfast cereals (cereals or chocolate balls) that a child eats for breakfast with milk contains 24 g of sugar, which means that a 10-year-old child eats his daily sugar requirement even before he leaves the house.
According to the study authors, a preschooler's eating habits can give parents an idea of how problematic a child will be in adolescence.
Sergey Nikolaev