Sugar & Mood: The Evidence
How to Take This Course
Sugar is everywhere. Processed food manufacturers learned long ago that adding sugar to their offerings moved more product. Sugar's available for free on restaurant tables all over the world. In this age of cheap, abundant sugar, it's easy to forget how expensive and difficult-to-obtain processed carbohydrates have been for most of human history.
It's also easy to overlook sugar's effects on behavior. Exposures are so widespread that sugar's psychological impact has become part of the normal background noise of societal dysfunction.
This course examines evidence that's slowly accumulated over the last several decades that sugar may not be as benign a substance as is typically assumed.
Here's what you do to successfully complete this course:
- Bookmark This Page
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- Skim the Studies and Watch the Videos
Each Study Link to the left and right takes you to a different article. If you don't already have Adobe Reader installed on your system, click here, you'll need it to read the papers.
Each of the nine studies in this course comes with a video segment covering the main points of the study. The best approach is to do a quick skim of the study, watch the video, then ... - Review the Studies
Dive into the study itself. One CE Hour is earned for every 5 study pages reviewed--that's 12 minutes/page. Each student is responsible for taking at least this much time to review each study.
When you're done, you'll find a link to a short, self-correcting quiz on the left side below the study links. Test your comprehension and prepare for the course exam. - Buy and Read the Book
Sugar Blues, a classic muckracking work by a mid-twentieth century American journalist William Dufty, explains the role sugar's played in the development of western civilization as well as on how it's come to be so common and considered harmless.
You'll find this book on Amazon used for well less than $10, and new for very little more. One CE Hour is awarded for every 40 pages of this occasionally ranting but highly entertaining and well-researched read. - Take the Test
IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO WRITE YOUR ANSWERS DOWN ON A PIECE OF PAPER as you take the test. This will make it easier for you to retake the test should that be necessary.
Click on the lowest button in the menu on the right (above) to take your test. There are 40 test questions; you need to get 28 correct to pass
Click the "submit" button at the bottom of the test and we'll grade it within 24 hours and let you know if you've passed. I'll send you a link to our feedback page, which will also ask you how many hours it took to completely the course. You need to spend at least 18 hours studying the materials to get full credit for the course.
Once you've submitted the feedback page and hour declaration, we'll email you your certificate within 24 hours.
If you have any questions please email us or call (310) 498-2777.