Sugar= Toddler Crack

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=1658232&page=1

yey!!! I found it on motheringdotcommune!!! I knew it was 20/20...(guess my barin still does function after my irritating and confusing lack of sleep lately)

 

That article is such bullshit! my kids go crazy if they eat too much crap with sugar. They get into more mischief, run around like maniacs and will NOT listen to me. On days when I'm in control of their diets (when I'm not working, essentially) they are much more in control of their actions and pay attention more to me.

 

yeah, majority of the stuff on that show is pure, liquid, stinky bull shit....

 

My parents always thought I was an oddball as a child, I never really liked sweet things all that much. If it was sweet, it had to be a sort of bitter sweet or very subtle. My favorite candy has always been plain Hershey's Milk Chocolate which isn't all that sweet. Sugar's never been a big thing for me and I've started having terrible reactions to slightly larger portions of it than I'm used to. When going out to a restaurant, I can never order a dessert anywhere because even after a tad bit, when I've saved plenty of room, I start shaking like a leaf and get the chills and get really nauseous. It's the strangest thing. Has anyone heard of any sort of reaction like that? I never was like that as a little kid, but I never had much sugar, either.

My brother, on the other hand...as an example, we used to have to keep him out of reach of the sugar packets because he would stick them in his mouth and pull out just the wrapper. And pour sugar into his Dr. Pepper. He was insane. My grandparents flat out refused to take us out to eat without our parents because of my brother. Which was a shame, because I was a good kid.

 

I have a really top-notch allergy-friendly cookbook written by a doctor and a nutritionist that makes the same claim about sugar not being the problem, except they say it's the preservatives, food colors and other chemical ingredients in sugary food that are at fault. I know better. I do a lot of my own cooking, and I know exactly what is in those cookies or whatever. I know how it affects me, and I've seen how it affects my kids. A little bit doesn't seem to be a problem, but there's a point where we've had too much and our reaction to it is very very real.