{"id":190311,"date":"2024-05-29T06:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/no-all-that-sugar-wont-make-your-kid-hyperactive-even-if-they-have-adhd"},"modified":"2024-05-29T06:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:23:34","slug":"no-all-that-sugar-wont-make-your-kid-hyperactive-even-if-they-have-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/no-all-that-sugar-wont-make-your-kid-hyperactive-even-if-they-have-adhd","title":{"rendered":"No, All That Sugar Won\u2019t Make Your Kid Hyperactive. Even if They Have ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-all-that-sugar-wont-make-your-kid-hyperactive-even-if-they-have-adhd2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a Saturday afternoon at a kids\u2019 birthday party. Hordes of children are swarming between the spread of birthday treats and party games. Half-eaten cupcakes, biscuits and lollies litter the floor, and the kids seem to have gained superhuman speed and bounce-off-the-wall energy.<\/p>\n<p>But is sugar to blame?<\/p>\n<p>The belief that eating sugary foods and drinks leads to hyperactivity has steadfastly persisted for decades. And parents have curtailed their children\u2019s intake accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Saturday afternoon at a kids\u2019 birthday party. Hordes of children are swarming between the spread of birthday treats and party games. Half-eaten cupcakes, biscuits and lollies litter the floor, and the kids seem to have gained superhuman speed and bounce-off-the-wall energy. But is sugar to blame? The belief that eating sugary foods and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}