A new study has found that sugar alters the reward-processing circuits of the brain to create an addiction similar to those with drugs. The study was done on minipigs and used PET imaging to examine the receptors in the...
read moreNew research indicates that the brains of obese children are more responsive to sugar than their fit peers....
read moreJust two serious hits to the head within days of each other can hurt the brain’s ability to use sugar to repair damaged cells....
read moreResearchers have discovered that adolescent rats that ate large quantities of sugar or high-fructose corn syrup (comparable to sugar-sweetened beverages for humans) experienced memory problems and brain inflammation....
read moreA professor and his students at Connecticut College found that for lab rats, Oreo cookies appear to be as addictive as cocaine or morphine....
read moreEssentially, when these foods impair the brain (specifically the hippocampus) they fuel overeating creating a vicious cycle. This helps confirm previous links between middle-age obesity and the increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias later....
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