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Source: The Times of India
January 04, 2018
Sugar coma’ can slow down your brain, warns study
Consuming certain sugars can drastically diminish your cognitive performance, a study has
discovered. Previous
studies have explored the positive impact ingesting glucose can have on
your brain, namely
improving your memory. However, the consumption of other sugars, such
as fructose and
sucrose, can have an adverse effect.
Researchers from the
University of Otago in New Zealand decided to examine how common
sugars affected the
abilities of 49 people to perform cognitive tasks. Three common dietary
sugars were tested
against a placebo sweetener, sucralose.
The participants each
took part in simple response time, arithmetic and Stroop interference
tests. The study
concluded that the participants who ingested glucose and sucrose performed
worse in the tasks in
comparison to those who ingested fructose and the placebo.
One of the study’s
authors, Mei Peng, a lecturer in sensory science in the Department of Food
Science at the
University of Otago, discussed the way in which consuming sugar can affect
you on a daily basis.
“I am fascinated by how our senses influence our behaviour and affect
our everyday lives,”
Peng told ‘PsyPost’.
“In particular, how
sugar consumption might change the way our brains work.”
“Our study suggests
that the ‘sugar coma’— with regards to glucose— is indeed
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phenomenon, where levels of attention seem to decline after consumption of
glucose containing sugar.”
In 2016, the National
Diet and Nutrition Survey announced that consumption of sugary soft
drinks by children
aged four to 10 was on the decline. However, last year Public Health
England unveiled new
guidelines to reduce the quantity of sugar that people in the UK
consume in their
diets.
Source: The
Times of India
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