Sugar rush or sugar crash? A meta-analysis of carbohydrate effects on mood

@article{Mantantzis2019SugarRO,  title={Sugar rush or sugar crash? A meta-analysis of carbohydrate effects on mood},  author={Konstantinos Mantantzis and Friederike Schlaghecken and Sandra I. S{\"u}nram-Lea and Elizabeth A. Maylor},  journal={Neuroscience \& Biobehavioral Reviews},  year={2019},  volume={101},  pages={45-67},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:92575160}}

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