1. Sugar makes kids hyper.
Lots of parents swear that a single hit of birthday cake holds the power to morph their well-behaved, polite youngster into a sticky hot mess that careens around a room while emitting eardrum-piercing shrieks. Anyone who has had the pleasure to attend a 5-year-old?s birthday party knows that the hypothesis sounds reasonable, except that science has found that it?s not true.
Sugar doesn?t change kids? behavior, a double-blind research study found way back in 1994. A sugary diet didn?t affect behavior or cognitive skills, the researchers report. Sugar does change one important thing, though: parents? expectations. After hearing that their children had just consumed a big sugar fix, parents were more likely to say their child was hyperactive, even when the big sugar fix was a placebo, another study found.
Of course, there are plenty of good reasons not to feed your kids a bunch of sugar, but fear of a little crazed sugar monster isn?t one of them.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gro...arenting-myths
Lots of parents swear that a single hit of birthday cake holds the power to morph their well-behaved, polite youngster into a sticky hot mess that careens around a room while emitting eardrum-piercing shrieks. Anyone who has had the pleasure to attend a 5-year-old?s birthday party knows that the hypothesis sounds reasonable, except that science has found that it?s not true.
Sugar doesn?t change kids? behavior, a double-blind research study found way back in 1994. A sugary diet didn?t affect behavior or cognitive skills, the researchers report. Sugar does change one important thing, though: parents? expectations. After hearing that their children had just consumed a big sugar fix, parents were more likely to say their child was hyperactive, even when the big sugar fix was a placebo, another study found.
Of course, there are plenty of good reasons not to feed your kids a bunch of sugar, but fear of a little crazed sugar monster isn?t one of them.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gro...arenting-myths
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