@ObliviaTheChangeling  
I know this all too well (I’m not trying to stir up sympathy), since I’ve got Type 1 Diabetes. :/

Sugar does give us energy, it’s got to do with your blood sugar level. If it’s too low, you get tired very quickly, meaning you’ll have to eat some more sugary stuff to get your energy back up. While it’s true that a “sugar rush” is nonsense, it’s a fact that kids by default are very hyperactive, and eating lots of sugar actually keeps them active longer, they don’t get tired as quickly as normally, making them appear more hyperactive than they actually are, just because they can keep it up for longer.

if you’re hyper and your blood sugar crashes, you’re gonna fall down no matter what. sugar prevents that, but doesn’t cause a rush. so kids without sugar are laying around moaning about being hungry, while ones with sugar are running about like crazed gerbils, not because the sugar made them into crazed gerbils, but that they’re all crazed gerbils, and lack of sugar makes them into sad sacks.
 
high sugar, high fiber diets would prevent it even longer than just sugar, despite no more energy being provided.
 
of course fructose takes about an hour for the liver to process, so if you’re eating table sugar, hfcs, juice, candy, or anything like that, you get a delayed effect that f*cks up your metabolism. the only sugar that’ll give you real energy is glucose, i.e. corn sugar, dextrose, and complex carbohydrates.
 
so they say sugar doesn’t cause a rush, but they test with the kind of sugar that is more of a poison than a fuel source. it’s a flawed hypothesis based on bogus assumptions (that fructose == glucose).

Sugar Rushes aren’t a big thing imo. But I do note thaf if I’m hungry and I only eat a candy bar and nothing else, I tend to get jittery due to no real proteins or benificial nutrients, only sugars.  
Maybe that’s why they call it a “rush”?

What now then, Snickers man?

@some pony  
Sugar rushes? Yeah, it’s placebo plus biased reporting (same normal behavior is going to reported as sugar rush by parents who think their kids has had sugar). Having more energy from carbohydrate-fat bar intake? Nope.

@Kombatant Champion  

 
“Great googly moogly…”

This is great!

Final frame: Guy facepalms

Haaaa XD

@Neko Majin C  

@some pony  
Nope. Sugar rush imminent.

@some pony  
Sugar rush? Yeah, it is. But it can exist in cartoon world, I guess…

Ain’t that just a myth?