On 7 May 2007 07:27:35 -0700,Farrel, wrote

> On May 3, 7:50 pm, Bun > wrote:
> > My grandparents told me that kids who drink or eat too much chocolate
> > become over active because of too much sugar. It makes them move a lot.
>
> Where is the evidence?

The sugar leads to hyperactivity story has been refuted many times
by scientists studying nutrition and behavior.

How much chocolate are we talking about? "Too much" is awfully
imprecise. What kind of chocolate are we talking about, is it bars
of 70% bittersweet? Or perhaps chocolate truffles or even Hershey's
Milk chocolate?

The real risk from chocolate and cocoa is in my tag lines for
this post.

Children are naturally hyperactive but if denied the requisite
parental attention can become even more active. It is a characteristic
behavior of young animals (if you have ever seen real kids, goats or lambs
that is to say, gamboling. It is a lovely sight.

Children with the pathological degree of hyperactivity for which
they might recieve medications are another matter entirely.

Now when younger in my hypomanic cycles I would consume half pounds
of chocolate bars but they didn't do much to keep me up all night which
I was doing anyhow.

later
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--
bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.