When your kid acts crazy after eating a piece of cake at a party, you probably assume the sugar is to blame. But sugar may not be the reason your child is behaving this way, doctors say.
As any parent who's taken their child to a birthday party knows, a single bite of cake can appear to send your kid's energy levels into overdrive. Many of us assume that sugar is to blame.
While it is possible that sugar may have a small effect on the behavior of some kids, the authors of the 1995 study noted, research shows that sugar does not make most children especially hyper, as many parents believe. So if you, too, have assume that sugar equals hyperactivity, don't beat yourself up about it. The conclusion you've come to through your own observations can also be explained by science. The combination of confirmation bias with conflating causation and correlation is a convincing cognitive cocktail.
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