Here’s a shocking revelation: sugar has no effect on children’s level of activity. Even though I’m still struggling to accept it, I actually saw an experiment on Television where they had a set of children attend two different parties with different food types. They were fed sugary snacks at the first party (but told the parents they would be fed carrot sticks and other vegetables with sugar free biscuits, scones and so on) and provided very soothing entertainment that the parents were not aware of. There was a lot of art and craft and story telling and mellow rhymes. By the time they were picked up by their parents, the children were very calm after consuming an average of 46 cubes of sugar each. The parents thought they were calm because they had eaten veggies and sugar-free foods. Another party was held the next day and the children were fed healthy fruit and vegetable snacks along with sugar-free drinks but there was a juggler and a clown who had the children bouncing off the walls and dancing to loud music; so that by the time their parents picked them up, they were as excited and hyperactive as ever. Now the parents, thinking their children had been fed with loads of sugar-packed foods, attributed the children’s behaviour to what they had eaten at the party. When they were shown the video of both parties, they were really shocked to find out that the environment, more than the diet, was actually the cause of hyperactivity in the children.

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