• Consuming too much sugar makes you stupid
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[quote] A study on rats suggests that eating a high fructose diet for as little as six weeks may make you stupid. Luckily, a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids can counteract this IQ loss, researchers suggest. "Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think," study researcher Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, of the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a statement. "Eating a high-fructose diet over the long term alters your brain's ability to learn and remember information. But adding omega-3 fatty acids to your meals can help minimize the damage." The study was published in the May 15 issue of the Journal of Physiology. The research was done on rats, but the researchers believe their brain chemistry is similar enough to humans to extend the findings. Sugar v. syrup Military Police Officers STJobs.sg/Military+Police+OfficersFind Military Police Officer Job In Singapore W/t STJob!Brain Training Games [url]www.lumosity.comImprove[/url] memory and attention with scientific brain games.Master/PHD Intake in SG [url]www.nie.edu.sgWide[/url] Range of Master Degree. Apply for NIE January 2013 Intake!Ads by Google The researchers zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar, that is commonly added to processed foods, including soft drinks, condiments, applesauce and baby food. The average American consumes more than 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some scientists even think sugar should be taxed the way alcohol and tobacco products are. "We're not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants," Gomez-Pinilla said. "We're concerned about high-fructose corn syrup that is added to manufactured food products as a sweetener and preservative." Maze & Memory Before starting the experimental diet the rats were taught to navigate their way through a maze using visual landmarks to remember the way. The researchers then separated the rats into two groups, both consumed a fructose solution as their water, but one half of the rats also received omega-3 fatty acids, which are thought to protect against damage to the synapses — the chemical connections between brain cells that enable memory and learning. After six weeks of their new diet, the researchers tested the rats' recall of the maze route. "The second group of rats navigated the maze much faster than the rats that did not receive omega-3 fatty acids," Gomez-Pinilla said. "Their brains showed a decline in synaptic activity. Their brain cells had trouble signaling each other, disrupting the rats' ability to think clearly and recall the route they'd learned six weeks earlier." Sugar problems The rats fed only high fructose corn syrup developed insulin resistance, which the researchers think may be what's hurting the brain cells. Insulin resistance due to the constant flow of fructose may have changed how cells use and store sugar and use it as the energy required for processing thoughts and emotions. (sugar is the only fuel that brain cells know how to use.) If the brain cells can't use insulin correctly, it could impact how they work. "Insulin is important in the body for controlling blood sugar, but it may play a different role in the brain, where insulin appears to disturb memory and learning," Gomez-Pinilla said. "Our study shows that a high-fructose diet harms the brain as well as the body. This is something new." Their study also suggests that omega-3 fatty acids may help protect or heal the brain from this damage, Gomez-Pinilla said, though researchers aren't sure how either of these effects happen at the molecular level in the brain. He recommends taking one gram of omega-3 fatty acids per day.[/quote] [url]http://www.livescience.com/20329-sugar-stupid.html?utm_content=LiveScience&utm_campaign=seo%2Bblitz&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social%2Bmedia[/url] thought everyone knew this??
Well that explanes me.
[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;35977175]Well that explanes me.[/QUOTE] Explains Youth in general these days. Go on any high school student's Twitter/Facebook page and prove me wrong.
Time to cut down on all this sugary shit before I get diabetes and stupidity.
Good thing that processed corn syrup shit is heavily regulated in the EU. [QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35977217]Explains Youth in general these days. Go on any high school student's Twitter/Facebook page and prove me wrong.[/QUOTE] Nope, there's morons over here too.
[QUOTE=Rents;35977242]Good thing that processed corn syrup shit is heavily regulated in the EU. Nope, there's morons over here too.[/QUOTE] Yep, they use real sugar in drinks and stuff over there instead. Actually makes the products worse for your health if you consume them at the same rate as corn syrup-based products.
Does this mean I'm an idiot?
Just because the study was done with rats doesn't neccessarily mean it will apply 100% to humans.
This explains all those stupid CoD playing monster drinking faggots.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35977282]Yep, they use real sugar in drinks and stuff over there instead. Actually makes the products worse for your health if you consume them at the same rate as corn syrup-based products.[/QUOTE] More calories maybe, but it doesn't have some of the health effects that HFCS is linked to.
good thing I gave up soda. unless it's Mexican Pepsi, that's my weakness.
[QUOTE=Rents;35977242]Good thing that processed corn syrup shit is heavily regulated in the EU. Nope, there's morons over here too.[/QUOTE]Even if it wasn't heavily regulated in the EU it wouldn't be used nearly as much as in the US, as we (nor really any country or group of countries) simply don't have the same combination of subsidies on HFCS, tariffs on sugar and other incentives that allow them to pump that shit out as cheap as they do. It's massive production and use is a uniquely American phenomenon.
Crap.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35977217]Explains Youth in general these days. Go on any high school student's Twitter/Facebook page and prove me wrong.[/QUOTE] i hate this notion that kids these days are completely retarded or stupider than any previous generation i'd be willing to bet the average ability across the western world in maths and 1st languages has improved across the board. just because there is now an open and constantly accessible public forum for everyone to voice their stupid opinion on everything now (and therefore for us to read them on) doesn't mean today's youth is any stupider, it just means we're painfully subjected to it [editline]16th May 2012[/editline] also health articles bore the shit out of me. i'm pretty sure by now i've read enough articles to inform me that every known substance on this planet increases my chances of getting cancer/heart disease/some other shit thing but then of course i've read every reverse article that says that the same substances, in moderation, lower your chances of contracting this that or the other horrible disease (see: chocolate, red wine, coffee, etc)
So people now actually think that the intake of sugar directly makes you stupider. [editline]16th May 2012[/editline] By every gulp.
So 3 hours after an exam I am sat here with a 2L bottle of Dr Pepper. Fuck.
Before it was [URL="http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd102.htm"]fluoride makes you stupid[/URL] now its sugar makes you stupid inb4 conspiracy theories edit: i think the problems are refined/artificial consumables. natural foods ftw (not including genetically modified food)
Im glad I stopped consuming large amounts of chocolate/sugar foods months ago.
erh a maze isn't an IQ test, it's a memory recall test. either their methodology is seriously flawed, or the article is really poorly written and makes a lot of jumps
[QUOTE=C47;35977627]Before it was [URL="http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd102.htm"]fluoride makes you stupid[/URL] now its sugar makes you stupid inb4 conspiracy theories edit: i think the problems are refined/artificial consumables. natural foods ftw (not including genetically modified food)[/QUOTE] Natural =/= good for you, and vice versa.
Fuck, and to think I've been drinking shitloads of cups of tea with sugar in them before my exams.
Soon studies will show that oxygen makes you stupid and scientists advise you try to minimize your intake.
you were already a stupid person before you decided to eat 15 tablespoons of sugar
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;35977338]Just because the study was done with rats doesn't neccessarily mean it will apply 100% to humans.[/QUOTE] Yeah, rats are similar enough that they make a good precursor to human studies, but they don't always hold true. Still, it goes without saying that sugar's terrible for you.
[QUOTE=C47;35977627](not including genetically modified food)[/QUOTE] Actually GM food is perfectly good for you. In many respects it is actually superior to "natural foods" which is a bizzare piece of terminology.
good thing i only eat chips fuck sugar salt is the best
Good, I never eat sugar. (Of course there's obviously going to be the occasional food that has it, but still.)
So that explains America then.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35977217]Explains Youth in general these days. Go on any high school student's Twitter/Facebook page and prove me wrong.[/QUOTE] your typical fp cynic right here folks [i]"i once thought a status was illogical and therefore i am intellectually superior to my peers!"[/i]
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35977217]Explains Youth in general these days. Go on any high school student's Twitter/Facebook page and prove me wrong.[/QUOTE] Funny thing is that the next generation will say the exact same thing. If we had Twitter and Facebook in the 60s and 70s, we would've seen the exact same things.
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