Instructions: Using the following information and prompts from your textbook author's blog, read through the information provided and then as a group, determine the best responses. Here's something "everybody says": Kids will become hyperactive if they eat too much sugar. This folk belief is as much a part of North American cultural wisdom as learning styles and the catharsis hypothesis. But this column in the New York Times explains that, like learning styles and catharsis, the idea of a "sugar high" is also a myth. The physician who wrote the column traced the modern idea of sugar causing hyperactivity to 1975. But then the author describes a randomized clinical trial on this question. Here's the description: An extraordinarily rigorous study settled the question in 1994. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of scientists tested normal preschoolers and children whose parents described them as being sensitive to sugar. Neither the parents, the children nor the research staff knew which of the children were getting sugary foods and which were getting a diet sweetened with aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. Urine was tested to verify compliance
Instructions: Using the following information and prompts from your textbook author's blog, read through the information provided and then as a group, determine the best responses. Here's something "everybody says": Kids will become hyperactive if they eat too much sugar. This folk belief is as much a part of North American cultural wisdom as learning styles and the catharsis hypothesis. But this column in the New York Times explains that, like learning styles and catharsis, the idea of a "sugar high" is also a myth. The physician who wrote the column traced the modern idea of sugar causing hyperactivity to 1975. But then the author describes a randomized clinical trial on this question. Here's the description: An extraordinarily rigorous study settled the question in 1994. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of scientists tested normal preschoolers and children whose parents described them as being sensitive to sugar. Neither the parents, the children nor the research staff knew which of the children were getting sugary foods and which were getting a diet sweetened with aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. Urine was tested to verify compliance
Chapter19: Horse Sense
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Given this information, what would you say to a relative or friend who believes that sugar causes hyperactivity in their own child?
Transcribed Image Text:Instructions: Using the following information and prompts from your textbook author's blog, read
through the information provided and then as a group, determine the best responses.
Here's something "everybody says": Kids will become hyperactive if they eat too much sugar. This folk
belief is as much a part of North American cultural wisdom as learning styles and the catharsis
hypothesis. But this column in the New York Times explains that, like learning styles and catharsis, the
idea of a "sugar high" is also a myth.
The physician who wrote the column traced the modern idea of sugar causing hyperactivity to 1975. But
then the author describes a randomized clinical trial on this question. Here's the description:
An extraordinarily rigorous study settled the question in 1994. Writing in the New England
Journal of Medicine, a group of scientists tested normal preschoolers and children whose parents
described them as being sensitive to sugar. Neither the parents, the children nor the research
staff knew which of the children were getting sugary foods and which were getting a diet
sweetened with aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. Urine was tested to verify compliance
with the diets. Nine different measures of cognitive and behavioral performance were assessed,
with measurements taken at five-second intervals.
The original study was, indeed, ambitious. The authors provided all food to the homes of the children in
the study so they could completely control what sweeteners were being used. The study took place over
nine weeks in a repeated-measures design--the diets were based on sucrose (sugar) one week, aspartame
another week, and saccharine during another week. The researchers measured the children's cognitive
performance and mood throughout the study.
The study concluded that sugar does not affect children's behavior or cognitive function.
An editorial that accompanied the study put a fine point on that conclusion, stating "there is no
evidence that sugar alone can turn a child with normal attention into a hyperactive child."
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