Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse
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Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse
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Re: Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse
#2I'd like to see the study expand to include sugar alternatives common in diet drinks. Many feel that this is still a safe alternative.
Re: Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse
#3I'd love to see more studies like this, because it sure feels like an obvious truth to me.
Being a relatively new parent, I have observed on many occasions kids going from peaceful and well mannered, to completely crazed and manic in mere minutes after being exposed to large amounts of sugar. I always wondered what kind of chemical thunderstorm was going off in their brains to account for the totally random, thoughtless, crazed monkeys they become.
Re: Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse
#4In that way that has become tediously predictable, the headline (and the article, after the end of the first para) bear almost no relation to the actual study which in fact only measures a particular effect similar to a very particular kind of simulated early life stress in rats.
Re: Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse
#5I'd love to see more studies like this, because it sure feels like an obvious truth to me. Being a relatively new parent, I have observed on many occasions kids going from peaceful and well mannered, to completely crazed and manic in mere minutes after being exposed to large amounts of sugar. I always wondered what kind of chemical thunderstorm was going off in their brains to account for the totally random, thoughtl…
Actually it's been pretty heavily debated whether that effect actually exists at all: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/busting-sugar-hypera...
Re: Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse
#6I'd like to see the study expand to include sugar alternatives common in diet drinks. Many feel that this is still a safe alternative.
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Re: Sugar may be as damaging to the brain as extreme stress or abuse
#7I'd love to see more studies like this, because it sure feels like an obvious truth to me. Being a relatively new parent, I have observed on many occasions kids going from peaceful and well mannered, to completely crazed and manic in mere minutes after being exposed to large amounts of sugar. I always wondered what kind of chemical thunderstorm was going off in their brains to account for the totally random, thoughtl…
An MD I asked about this said that sugar actually has something of a sedative effect, and that kids getting wound up on candy is usually attributable to the caffeine in chocolate.