Sugar Makes you Hyper - Debunked!
Who doesn't love a little sugar? For decades, our parents and media all over have made us believe that sugar has made us hyper and overexcited. What if I tell you, this is a medical myth just waiting to be busted, and sugar has actually no real effect on being hyperactive and it is all just a placebo effect? A 1973 study by an allergist Benjamin Feingold, M.D., supported a diet free of sugar, artificial flavoring, and food coloring to treat hyperactivity, after which parents and media advocated the myth that sugar causes hyperactivity. An explanation about sugar leading to hyperactivity was also backed by the assumption that sugar spikes blood glucose, an effect of hyperglycemia. However, symptoms of hyperglycemia do not indicate hyperactivity. A 1994 double-blind research study , where families were put on different diets for three-week time periods indicated that the cognitive and behavioral effects of children could not be attributed to the consumption of sugar. It is the pa