Debunking myths: Sugar makes kids hyper

Sweet issue: Adani Shahrir (left) and her sister, Afiya, playing together in their home in Puchong. Ray, busy playing with his toys.

PETALING JAYA: Sales manager Melisa Leeau avoids giving her children sugary desserts in the evenings or she would not see the end of them running helter-skelter and screaming their heads off.

Leeau, 43, said it would then be difficult for her to get her son, Ray Tan, six, and daughter Sara, four, to bed by 10pm.