Another great piece from Dr. Ede. Her writing is always so easy to digest and the presentation so straightforward that it's a joy to read. And she is spot on with the deleterious emotional and behavioral effects of flooding the bloodstream with glucose. Take this one sentence:
One study found a glucose-rich drink quadrupled adrenaline levels in healthy teenage boys 
Read that and then think about the legions of adolescent and teenage boys (and girls, for that matter) who routinely belly up to the fast food soda dispenser to fill (and refill) their super-sized, sugar-sweetened, carbonated beverages? The study quoted used the equivalent glucose to what's in just two 12-ounce cans of soda--ie, 24 ounces. That's not even close to what's in the first Big Gulp or SuperSized cup, let alone the refill(s). 

Imagine the adrenaline rush spurred by that intake! Anger. Aggression. Fight or flight. Especially in teen and adolescent boys, who are already struggling with the unaccustomed surges in testosterone operating on a not-fully-formed executive center in the brain.

 Consider just the 'fight' behavior such an adrenaline flood would trigger and is it any wonder we have an epidemic of 'hyperactivity' and 'behavior problems' among the youth of today? Before prescribing drugs, shouldn't we prescribe a diet of decent food?

Consider further, and more ominously, that following the Parkland school massacre the shooter fled the school and went straight to a nearby mall and purchased a soda and then went to a fast food restaurant.

Great article!  A lot of depression, mood swings and mental imbalances may be eliminated by getting rid of the usual suspects - highly addictive sugar and highly processed carbohydrates.   Thank you CrossFit!

I thought this was a really good easy to read article. I found the below statement pretty interesting, and in general I pulled some good nuggets from reading this article.

 insulin is not simply a blood glucose regulator, though even many doctors continue to think of it that way. Insulin is actually a master growth hormone; when it peaks, it puts the body into growth and storage mode. One of the ways it does this is to turn fat-burning enzymes OFF and fat-storage enzymes ON, which is why high-sugar diets can be so fattening.