Grateful again for Mother's Day thoughts.
И вот вновь, я думаю o бaбyшke.
Sugar Makes You Smarter
A provocative statement but supported by the facts. A number of studies have previously shown that young children did better in school when they ate sweetened breakfast cereals and that adults also scored better when consuming glucose compared with placebo. Now, a study in 20 healthy elderly people shows that consumption of carbohydrates in the morning led to better memory and task performance. The study appeared in the September 2000 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Similar benefits were seen with consumption of glucose, potatoes, or barley. People who ate carbohydrates were better able to recall lists of words, pay attention, and connect numbers assigned randomly on a page. Although the foods were not significantly different from each other, there was a trend to better performance with glucose and lower performance with barley. The blood glucose level of the subjects was not related to the results of this study.
HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The preferred fuel source for your brain is glucose, the form of sugar the body makes in the liver if you don't eat enough carbohydrate. Regulation of blood sugar is connected to mental performance in all age groups. This is yet another reason not to follow fad diets that promise to keep blood sugar at constantly low levels. In fact, the elderly with the best insulin sensitivity and lowest body-mass index had the worst initial cognitive performance.
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