What exactly is a sugar high?
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- June
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So I was surprised to see that the other night when Zyla ate some cannoli cake, she became cranky, whiny and downright annoying. I always thought sugar highs made children run around in circles and get punchy and rambunctuous. But she just turned ornery and sleepy and just wanted me to hold her tight.
I found this site called healing daily that talks about the effects of sugar on your health. I was shocked to read that the average American consumes about 135 pounds of sugar per year—up from 26 lbs. 20 years ago. Yikes!
I don’t think it’s bad to indulge in a cookie, brownie or sweet treat every couple of days. Unfortunately, sugar—the bad high fructose corn syrup kind—is found in so many other things, like cereal, bread, ketchup and peanut butter.
Here are a few ways that sugar can affect children: It can contribute to hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, concentration difficulties, and crankiness; it can cause drowsiness and decreased activity; it can raise adrenalin levels and cause eczema.
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on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pm by Marcela Rojas.
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If you have a Costco membership, they have their own brand of peanut butter that has nothing but peanuts in it. The very first time you open it, you have to stir it (use something long and do it in the sink or next to it, in case some of the oil glops over the edge as you stir), but after that you don’t have to stir it to keep it from separating. It’s very tasty and there’s no sugar except what’s naturally in the peanuts. And it’s less expensive than Skippy too (I grew up eating Skippy and still love it, but there’s too much corn syrup in it. Who needs corn syrup — any sugar, for that matter — in peanut butter?)