Health & Fitness
SciShow Tangents editorial assistant/genius Deboki Chakravarti joins us once more to talk about that sweet sand we all love so much: sugar! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Deboki: @okidoki_boki If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail] [Definition] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2548255 https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/big-sugar-isnt-to-blame-for-steering-us-away-from-fat.html [Truth or Fail] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434031/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/nicotine.htm https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/01/flowers-can-hear-bees-and-make-their-nectar-sweeter/ https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/ncsu-njd051816.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/01/flowers-can-hear-bees-and-make-their-nectar-sweeter/ [Fact Off] Honeypot ants https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/honey-ant-adaptations-wbt/ https://www.nature.com/articles/025405a0 https://books.google.com/books?id=E_6-pGOLUgcC&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false https://abt.ucpress.edu/content/48/6/335 Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HoneyAnt.jpg Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_ant#/media/File:Honey_Ants_(7344580116).jpg Sugar dust explosion https://www.csb.gov/imperial-sugar-company-dust-explosion-and-fire/ https://www.ajc.com/blog/investigations/decade-after-deadly-imperial-sugar-explosion-still-new-worker-safety-standards/qpKHscUPUZ77EKEtclCCMN/ https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/safety-messages/safetymessage-2011-02-07-imperialsugarcompanydustexplosion-vits.pdf?sfvrsn=7eae1ef8_4 [Ask the Science Couch] Hyperactivity https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/88/5/960.long?sso=1&sso_redirect_count=1&nfstatus=401&nftoken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&nfstatusdescription=ERROR%3a+No+local+token https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002221948301600604 https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/what-is-the-feingold-diet#1 https://www.livescience.com/55754-does-sugar-make-kids-hyper.html Addiction https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/ https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/14/910 https://news.psu.edu/story/141336/2006/01/16/research/probing-question-sugar-addictive https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sugar-addiction-drug_n_4173632