10 Well Known Facts You Thought Were True (That Actually Aren't)

4. Sugar Makes Children Go Loopy

Anyone who€™s been around kids for any length of time knows that you don€™t give the adorable but terrifying little tykes sugary food or drinks unless you have a chair and a whip to keep them back with while you make your escape. The €˜sugar rush€™ is one of the best known and most easily avoided ways of causing temporarily hyperactivity in children, turning them into tiny, screaming snot-covered hellspawn. You may have guessed by now, but that€™s simply not backed up by any kind of scientific or nutritional information whatsoever. Studies have shown absolutely no difference in behaviour between children given a sugar-high diet or a sugar-free diet. These tests were administered on a double-blind basis; meaning that both the subjects and the researchers recording the data didn€™t have a clue which group had been given sugar and which hadn€™t, removing all kinds of potential bias from the experiment. The studies even included children suffering from AD/HD and children with a proven sensitivity to sugar. No change in behaviour. Nevertheless, parents still hold to their outmoded and unscientific beliefs, like tribal elders clinging to their false gods, because it€™s a good excuse not to keep buying them sweets, and because it€™s completely obvious to anyone that Tizer causes normal kids to turn into gibbering basket cases. It€™s loopy juice, clearly.