Soda Kills?

Let me go on record as saying I love pop, soda, coke, cold drink and whatever else you people call it.  I tend to drink two to three cups a day anywhere from 16oz to 32 oz.  I try to always drink diet, but sometimes I'll stray to try a new flavor.

Pop has been blamed for making us fat, keeping us up, giving us gas and now the so called experts are saying it causes violent tendencies in children.

Now this study was done on 1,900 Boston teenagers.  Really!  Now I might be doing a little profiling but aren't Boston teens already know for busting a few heads.  Why didn't they pick on 1,900 kids from Canada (I chose them because they are suppose to be so polite.)  Nearly 43 percent of teens who drank 14 or more cans of soda a week said they carried a weapon at some point, compared with 23 percent of teens who drank less than one can of soda a week.  Nearly 30 percent of the ninth to 12th graders said they drank more than five cans of soda a week.

I'm old school, pop was a treat when I was in High School.  We would get some at grandpa and grandma's due to the fact that they always had 7-Up around to mix with adult beveridges.  My mother would buy it once in awhile usually a 2-liter on sale for 69 cents.  That would have to last the three of us for at least a week, sometimes more.  So were we violent?  Heck Yes!  Back then it was due to all the violent cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Road Runner.  That and the two bowls of sugar we had every Saturday morning.

Video games, sport stars (who aren't role models) and T.V. are other things the so called experts have blamed.  They will always find something to blame it on but the real reason...Teenagers are just nuts - now thats some research I can get behind!