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Your last note about kids being wired on sugar, while pervasive and seemingly anecdotally supported, has not been proven out in the literature. Sugar has not be
by daturkel 8y ago
Your last note about kids being wired on sugar, while pervasive and seemingly anecdotally supported, has not been proven out in the literature. Sugar has not been conclusively found to cause hyperactivity.
- skj 8y agoMy son goes nuts when he has sugar (like ice cream or a cupcake), full stop. Has it not been shown in the literature because no one has tried an appropriately rigorous experiment, or because the appropriately rigorous experiment showed a different conclusion?
- JshWright 8y agoIt's actually the example that Aaron Carroll (one of the co-authors of the article) used to explain what an RCT is, and why it's one of the strongest study designs possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkr9YsmrPAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkr9YsmrPAI
- daturkel 8y agoI believe you, and I've seen what appears to be the same effect first-hand, but it has not been replicated in controlled environments. Here's a non-scientific article which cites several studies which failed to find a correlation: https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/the-sugar-high-is-actually-just-a-parenting-myth.html https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/the-sugar-high-is-actually-ju...
- _wmd 8y agoIgnoring the lunacy of wasting decades of training to prove (I hope, to everyone) the blindingly obvious, this would potentially be a real fun experiment to design.
- JshWright 8y agoWhat do you think is blindingly obvious?
- emodendroket 8y agoExcept they did design the experiment multiple times, and found the opposite of the "obvious" result.