{"id":72027,"date":"2017-08-20T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/while-sugar-impairs-memory-and-learning-skills-eating-chocolate-improves-brain-function"},"modified":"2017-08-20T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T15:23:07","slug":"while-sugar-impairs-memory-and-learning-skills-eating-chocolate-improves-brain-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/while-sugar-impairs-memory-and-learning-skills-eating-chocolate-improves-brain-function","title":{"rendered":"While sugar impairs memory and learning skills, eating chocolate improves brain function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lEXBxijQREo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) conducted a study in 2012 on rats and found that a diet high in fructose hinders learning skills and memory and also slow down the brain. The researchers found that rats who over-consumed fructose had damaged synaptic activity in the brain, meaning that communication among brain cells was impaired.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Study\u2019s lead author Dr. Fernando Gomez-Pinilla said in a statement that \u201cInsulin is important in the body for controlling blood sugar, but it may play a different role in the brain. Our study shows that a high-fructose diet harms the brain as well as the body.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to the damaging effects on cognition and mood, sugar also has drug-like effects in the reward system of the brain. Neuroscientist Nicole Avena presented the effect of sugar on our brains and bodies in TED-Ed\u2019s animated installment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artificialbrain.xyz\/while-sugar-impairs-memory-and-learning-skills-eating-chocolate-improves-brain-function\/\">http:\/\/www.artificialbrain.xyz\/while-sugar-impairs-memory-an...-function\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) conducted a study in 2012 on rats and found that a diet high in fructose hinders learning skills and memory and also slow down the brain. The researchers found that rats who over-consumed fructose had damaged synaptic activity in the brain, meaning that communication among brain cells [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}