Why Can Sugar Cause Learning And/Or Attention Problems in Some Children?

by Francine Prince and Harold Prince, Ph.D.

Sugar, because it stimulates the flow of insulin, depresses the amount of glucose in your child's bloodstream.  Net enough glucose, the brain's source of energy, is carried to the brain.  Among the many symptoms of low glucose are: irritability, loss of concentration and attention, faltering memory, depression, anxiety, lightheadedness, dizziness, insomnia, fatigue, and exhaustion.

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Additives must be detoxified by body enzymes.  Some hyperactive children lack phenolsulphotransferase-P an enzyme needed to detoxify certain intestinal bacteria.  Food dyes inhibit this enzyme so it doesn't function properly.  So the hyperactivity can be due to the presence of certain detoxified bacteria.