Hello! I have been working as a doctor for 22 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article I will tell you about how children are mad with sweets.
Americans and other foreigners have a widespread tale that children from sweets become mad and uncontrollable. It is very fashionable for them in the West to look for hyperactivity, attention deficit and similar sores.
Somewhere in the seventies of the last century, endocrinologists finally officially admitted that sugar cannot take the roof off children like that, and something is wrong with this theory.
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Then irrepressible enthusiasts decided that it was all about food coloring and other additives that act like poison on children.
No one could refute this story for a very long time, until in 2011 the American Office of Sanitary Inspection for Quality the Food and Drug Administration ruled that there is no evidence that food coloring is blowing the roof of American children.
Sugar is not high, but rather low
The parents of the rabid children did not stop and swore that the sugar caused their children to jump, jump, grab everything and kick their legs.
Pediatricians decided that there are two more or less plausible explanations for this phenomenon.
Hypoglycemia
Children sometimes experience low blood sugar levels, making them lethargic and sleepy. It is clear that if you give them juice, then the sugar level will jump, and children will turn into normal active children.
It's just that the abrupt transition from sleepiness to activity infuriates the parents themselves. We have already discussed this topic in the article on ketogenic hypoglycemia and acetone. You can read the link below.
Another hypoglycemia
There is such a phenomenon reactive functional hypoglycemia. This is a very vague thing that not everyone knows about.
If you eat sweets, then the blood glucose level rises sharply. The pancreas reacts sharply to this and releases a lot of insulin. Insulin instantly drives glucose into the cells, and its level in the blood drops sharply.
If a child ate a full meal with complex carbohydrates, then these complex carbohydrates would have been digested and absorbed into the blood for a long time. But the matter may not be limited to lunch, but simply sweet soda. Such a thing can generally be mixed with the favorite American corn syrup made from glucose and fructose. These sugars are absorbed instantly and disappear from the blood just as quickly.
The child's body does not like such drops in sugar, and it raises a panic. To increase the level of glucose in the blood, the body secretes so-called counterinsular hormones. This includes adrenaline.
It is clear that if a child's adrenaline level rises sharply, then the child will become rabid.
Probably, it is precisely such an adrenaline rush that confuses American parents.
Have you noticed similar tricks in children?
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