DiBattista D, Shepherd M L
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Psychol Rep. 1993 Feb;72(1):47-55. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1993.72.1.47.
The available body of scientific evidence does not support the notion that sugar consumption has significant adverse effects on children's behaviours; however, responses to a mailed questionnaire indicated that more than 80% of 389 Canadian primary school teachers believed that sugar consumption contributes to increasing activity of normal children and to the behavioural problems of hyperactive children. Moreover, in the previous three years, 55% of all respondents had counselled the parents of children whom they believed to be hyperactive to consider reducing their child's sugar consumption to control the child's activity, and parents frequently did so. These results indicate that teachers need to be provided with accurate and up-to-date information about the effects of sugar on children's behaviour and about effective treatments for hyperactivity. Possible origins of beliefs about the reputed adverse behavioural effects of sugar and about factors that may serve to perpetuate these beliefs are discussed.
现有的科学证据并不支持糖的摄入对儿童行为有显著不良影响这一观点；然而，对一份邮寄问卷的回复表明，在389名加拿大小学教师中，超过80%的教师认为糖的摄入会导致正常儿童活动增加以及多动症儿童出现行为问题。此外，在过去三年中，所有受访者中有55%曾建议他们认为患有多动症的儿童的家长考虑减少孩子糖的摄入量以控制孩子的活动，而家长们也经常这样做。这些结果表明，需要向教师提供有关糖对儿童行为影响以及多动症有效治疗方法的准确和最新信息。本文还讨论了关于糖的所谓不良行为影响的信念的可能来源以及可能使这些信念长期存在的因素。
