Sugar and ADHD: A Home Invasion

The idea of like sugar highs and sugar making kids hyperactive is based on this idea that it causes ADHD. That is sort of the root of it, right? And then it becomes more generalized. People develop this association that is like any high energy or frankly just like irritating behavior from kids. Is likely a result of any sugar they may have eaten. In 1994, there's a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. They're looking at both sucrose or sugar and aspartame. All of the kids involved are described by their parents as being quote unquote sensitive to sugar.