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Study tries to predict if toddlers will be become criminals one day

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by Meg Farris / Eyewitness News

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 6:37 PM

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Is there a way to possibly predict if your 3-year-old is more likely to commit crimes as an adult?

In a new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, doctors found that children who did not show the normal fear response to loud and unpleasant sounds when they were toddlers, were more likely to commit crimes when they were grown up.

Doctors say the potential for antisocial and criminal behavior may be hard-wired in young brains and this gives us the opportunity to use early interventions to help.

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Your mother may have been right about taking a daily multivitamin.

A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that people who do take them, have chromosomes with longer markers of the cells' biological clock. But people who take vitamins tend to have better health habits than those who don't so it could be that the other health habits are making the difference.

Also doctors know that exercising, not smoking and keeping a healthful weight do have anti-aging effects down to the cellular level.

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You may consider yourself young in your 40s, but what you are doing right now may be causing you to have dementia later on if you are smoking, or have high blood pressure or diabetes.

One in six Americans older than 70 has dementia. It is especially high among African Americans, but the good news is if you take control of these dangerous health problems and addictions you might have a better chance of not getting dementia and Alzheimer's in your senior years.
 

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maturemind said on November 21, 2009 at 2:55 AM

The best solution to this problem, is return Prayers & Discipline in our homes & schools, when kids don't have any fear of time outs or loosing some type of privlegde, computers, cell phones or Ipods, which is a real joke, As a child I feared my mom because I knew she would beat the heck out of me or any of her kids, same as some feared their fathers, however she taught all 7 of us from very young that we all have choices, you either choose to obey or not, But we had to except the punishment for what ever dumb or wise decision we made, however the fear of her was the primary reason none of her 7 kids has never served any form of incarceration, same as most who was taught to embrace discipline, But with the absence of prayers & discipline in society thats why we have so many young people committing violent crimes, violent criminals has always plagued upon society when parents failed at teaching them when they were young,