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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I think pediatricians these days know that it's a myth: sugar doesn't actually cause hyperactivity. |
As a bare fact I believe this is true. But I am shouted down by parents who KNOW their children get hyperactive sugar highs.
The article is wrong. It takes an example of one type of food myth and applies it across the board. Children are more hyped up by parties than sugar? Yes. Therefore, no food causes behavioural differences. Err, no.
Lazy, lazy journalism.
It's also part of the underlying attitude that children are
bad. They are no longer properly controlled. Our parents would have walloped us if we behaved like that. Damned liberals and their food-based excuses - just bring back the birch.
In this country the right wing press like that line. YMMV.
All other health issues aside, I believe that children
do eat too much sugar and mothers
have become more lazy about their children's diets. I'm going on what I see day to day, what I know about nutrition from 20 years of dieting. And I mentally applaud the mothers I see who feed their children rice cakes and carrot sticks. But they are in the minority.
The above does not apply for children in Minifob's situation - this thread is an eye-opener. It's made me check myself when judging the screaming kid who is ruining the one meal out I've treated myself to in a month. It does not change my mind about the two year old in a buggy eating a "share-size" pack of Wotsits at 11 o' clock in the morning.