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Tell ya what? Go hang out with some kids after you give them a bunch of sugar. Studies can say one thing, personal experience watching children turn into little

Tell ya what? Go hang out with some kids after you give them a bunch of sugar. Studies can say one thing, personal experience watching children turn into little demons that make you run all day before they get cranky and crash hard says otherwise.

hombre_fatal 8y ago
It's funny you mention that since here's how the top link (The Guardian) starts off: > People often get cross when you tell them there's no such thing as a sugar rush. Especially parents. They have witnessed, time and again, their offspring going ape at parties, after mainlining jelly and ice cream. But let's not get distracted trying to convince me the study is wrong with anecdotes. That's the point: even ubiquitous "common sense" that anyone would swear is right can be debunked.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
  > They have witnessed, time and again, their offspring going ape at parties, after mainlining jelly and ice cream. And I feel like there's another explanation for that - the party setting.
  - Zitrax 8y ago
    Indeed. At home i notice no difference at all when my kids eat candy. And at parties they get wild before the candy is handed out. Also kids are different of course.
- grawprog 8y ago
  I wasn't saying the study was wrong, it's more it doesn't matter if it is or not. Just try it yourself. Find a kid, give the child some candy, pop, or other high sugar thing and hang out with them for a few hours, then draw your own conclusion. What does it matter what some study says when every kid i've ever seen get a bunch of sugar acts the same way? Studies mean nothing when you're with kids hyped up on sugar. And honestly, I don't really eat sugar, when I have some pop or eat candy, I notice the way it makes me feel. It doesn't make me hyper, but it makes me antsy and twitchy.
  - DanBC 8y ago
    > Find a kid, give the child some candy, pop, or other high sugar thing and hang out with them for a few hours, then draw your own conclusion. I've done this. I didn't notice any difference. I suspect the difference people notice is down to their lack of skill at parenting rather than anything to do with sugar.
    - emiliobumachar 8y ago
      Hypothesis: being around crummy adults leads both to lots of sugar and to bad behavior.
  - cheeko1234 8y ago
    I've done this numerous times. It's all placebo and literally the point of the original comment. Things that seems common sense AND you see them happen anecdotally all the time can still be wrong.
  - seba_dos1 8y ago
    Finding a kid, giving the child some candy, pop, or other high sugar thing and hanging out with them for a few hours is by no means a sensible way to draw any reasonable conclusions. Isn't it pretty obvious?
icebraining 8y ago
"Personal experience" can be biased too: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02168088 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02168088
scarejunba 8y ago
Haha, if this was the metric, I'd be an antivaxxer too.
moosey 8y ago
Or, just put a bunch of kids together and get them playing.

hombre_fatal 8y ago

It's funny you mention that since here's how the top link (The Guardian) starts off: > People often get cross when you tell them there's no such thing as a sugar rush. Especially parents. They have witnessed, time and again, their offspring going ape at parties, after mainlining jelly and ice cream. But let's not get distracted trying to convince me the study is wrong with anecdotes. That's the point: even ubiquitous "common sense" that anyone would swear is right can be debunked.

SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
> They have witnessed, time and again, their offspring going ape at parties, after mainlining jelly and ice cream. And I feel like there's another explanation for that - the party setting.
- Zitrax 8y ago
  Indeed. At home i notice no difference at all when my kids eat candy. And at parties they get wild before the candy is handed out. Also kids are different of course.
grawprog 8y ago
I wasn't saying the study was wrong, it's more it doesn't matter if it is or not. Just try it yourself. Find a kid, give the child some candy, pop, or other high sugar thing and hang out with them for a few hours, then draw your own conclusion. What does it matter what some study says when every kid i've ever seen get a bunch of sugar acts the same way? Studies mean nothing when you're with kids hyped up on sugar. And honestly, I don't really eat sugar, when I have some pop or eat candy, I notice the way it makes me feel. It doesn't make me hyper, but it makes me antsy and twitchy.
- DanBC 8y ago
  > Find a kid, give the child some candy, pop, or other high sugar thing and hang out with them for a few hours, then draw your own conclusion. I've done this. I didn't notice any difference. I suspect the difference people notice is down to their lack of skill at parenting rather than anything to do with sugar.
  - emiliobumachar 8y ago
    Hypothesis: being around crummy adults leads both to lots of sugar and to bad behavior.
- cheeko1234 8y ago
  I've done this numerous times. It's all placebo and literally the point of the original comment. Things that seems common sense AND you see them happen anecdotally all the time can still be wrong.
- seba_dos1 8y ago
  Finding a kid, giving the child some candy, pop, or other high sugar thing and hanging out with them for a few hours is by no means a sensible way to draw any reasonable conclusions. Isn't it pretty obvious?

icebraining 8y ago

"Personal experience" can be biased too: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02168088 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02168088

scarejunba 8y ago

Haha, if this was the metric, I'd be an antivaxxer too.

moosey 8y ago

Or, just put a bunch of kids together and get them playing.