The researchers found that the drugs did have a positive impact on people with mild depression - but the effect was no bigger than that achieved by giving patients a sugar-coated "dummy" pill.

BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.

CNN: The Really Useful Guide

And it is being sold with a heavy dose of sugar-coated earnestness that many non-Americans may find indigestible.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Alternatively, though, they may just be sugar-coated ways of distracting a nation starved of everything else.

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