My son is one of those children who you're trying to say goes mental on sugar.
It's bollocks. It's not sugar. It's really not. From what I can see, it's probably food additives and things like caffeine (present in a lot of fizzy drinks), and certain food colourings. He'll go mental on orange cordial, but he'll go just as mental on sugar-free orange cordial or diet coke. If you don't use the sugar you consume, you don't have bursts of manic energy, you get fucking fat.
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Spot on..
it's the artificial colourings, Sunset Yellow and the vicious blue one that was banned for a while in scandinavia are the worst. I wasn't allowed food colouring at all until I turned 18 and moved out from my parents' because it turned me into destructo-spasmo-child of doom and then slammed me with a hangover worse than micro-brew hangover.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 10:51, closed)