Re:Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer
by dhosek on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:18PM
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Sugar, despite popular belief, is not a stimulant (I’d have to pull up my Intro Psych textbook to find the citations on this, but it’s been deeply studied).
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Re:Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer
by frosted-flakes on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:24PM
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Similarly, it doesn't make kids hyper. That's probably just a side effect of the environment in which kids typically get candy. There was a study, but I don't know what it was called.