{"id":443,"date":"2008-12-18T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2008-12-18T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:00:33","slug":"dose-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Dose of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kimandjason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/guac.jpg\" height=\"270\" alt=\"Guacamole\" \/><br \/>\n<font size=\"-1\">Does this bowl of guac make me look fat?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>BBC online gives us a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7789302.stm\">short list of medical myths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;ve been saying for a long time (to disbelieving parents) that it&#8217;s a myth that <strong>sugar makes kids hyperactive<\/strong>. Gee, your kid is all crazy after eating birthday cake? Surprise, he was at a birthday party with clowns and rides and games and lots of other screaming kids.<\/p>\n<p>Note also that when parents have been told (true or not) that the kids have had sugar, they rate their children&#8217;s behavior as being more active.<\/p>\n<p>[Apparently, there <em>may<\/em> be something in the coloring used in kids&#8217; treats that causes hyperactive behavior. This isn&#8217;t mentioned in the list of myths, by the way. That&#8217;s bonus material for weeklyrob readers.]<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;m also interested in the myth that <strong>nighttime eating causes weight gain<\/strong>. Everyone says that it does, but it never made sense to me. Math is simple. The more calories you eat, the more calories you have to burn. I don&#8217;t see how it matters when you eat them.<\/p>\n<p>But I never questioned it much, &#8217;cause there&#8217;s a lot that I don&#8217;t understand. So I just shrugged and said, &#8220;ok, I guess this guacamole will make me fatter than if I&#8217;d eaten it two hours ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this bowl of guac make me look fat? BBC online gives us a short list of medical myths. * I&#8217;ve been saying for a long time (to disbelieving parents) that it&#8217;s a myth that sugar makes kids hyperactive. Gee, your kid is all crazy after eating birthday cake? Surprise, he was at a birthday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}