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Holiday medical myths dispelled: "children did not behave differently after eating sugar ... When parents think their children have been given a drink containing sugar (even if it is really sugar-free), they rate their children's behaviour as more hyperactive."
There are a few stories around the Internet which speculate that the sugar/hyperactivity myth may literally be government propaganda. During WWII, when food rationing was in place, the government may have made up this myth in order to make sugar rations more acceptable.