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Do you think giving a child too much candy in their youth can lead to them being criminals, as this study claims?

Everyone knows that eating too many sweets is bad for our teeth, but could giving candy to children lead to delinquency later in life? A new study, to be published in next month's British Journal of Psychiatry, claims that, indeed, it can. The Cardiff University study used data on nearly 17,500 children born in 1970. They found that, among this group, 69 percent of those who had since been convicted of violent crimes reported eating candy or chocolate nearly everyday as a child.

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