Moore's analysis suggests a correlation: 69% of people who had been convicted of a violent act by age 34 reported eating candy almost every day as youngsters

TIME: Kids with the worst problems tend to be impulsive risk takers, and that these kids had terrible diets - breakfast was a Coke and a bag of chips. And kids who eat too many treats at a young age risk becoming violent in adulthood.

SHOOT: Remember that saying, you are what you eat. So a sweet tooth is potentially a savage tooth. And the reason is lack of discipline in terms of both the parent and the kid.

clipped from news.yahoo.com One of those questions is whether sweets themselves contain compounds that promote antisocial and aggressive behavior, or whether the excessive eating of sweets represents a lack of discipline in childhood that translates to poor impulse control in adulthood. Moore is leaning toward the latter. It's possible that children who are given sweets too frequently never learn how to delay gratification - that is, they never develop enough patience to wait for things they want, leading to impulsivity in adulthood. It's also possible that children who are poorly behaved from the start tend to get more candy. (Read "Why Media Could Be Bad for Your Child's Health.") Moore acknowledges that there is also some intriguing data suggesting that diet itself may have a profound effect on behavior.