50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

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SUGAR MAKES KIDS HYPERACTIVE

There is a whole heap of reasons to avoid giving too much sugar to children, but hyperactivity isn’t one of them. The myth of a child spazzing out from a “sugar high” is exactly that — a myth. Popularized by an allergist’s recommended diet and a flawed study in the 1970s, the connection between hyperactivity and sugar was debunked by a series of studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1995.

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