High-Fructose Diet Slows the Brain, Hampering Memory and Learning

[Ichingcarpenter]

Talk about dumbing down a nation with HFC and Fox news... now there is proof.
We already know the data on faux news viewers now we have a link.



High-Fructose Diet Slows the Brain, Hampering Memory and Learning
May 16, 2012 by StaffBiology

Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and professor of integrative biology and physiology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science
Many people know that soda and sweets aren’t a healthy choice of food, but did you know that a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning? This news comes from a study at UCLA where a team zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, something the average American consumes more than 40 pounds of per year.

Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid.

A new UCLA study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning — and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption. The peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology publishes the findings in its May 15 edition.

“Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think,” said Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a professor of integrative biology and physiology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science. “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.”

http://scitechdaily.com/high-fructose-diet-slows-the-brain-hampering-memory-and-learning/

[uponit7771]

1. I can attest to this first hand, a persons glycemic index has a lot to do with this also...

...a spectrum analyzer is really what is needed or a sugar patch for the skin....

That would take a lot of money out of folks hands though, food industry is huge in this country

[Initech]

2. Guess that explains the Republican party then.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. One of the theories of the causes of aging, besides oxidative stress and the shortening of telomeres

is glycosylation, the permanent cross-linking or binding of carbon (like sugar molecules) with protein, which is one of the reasons your skin sags and your blood vessels lose elasticity as you age. Diabetes, which is thought of as an accelerated aging process, involves greater glycosylation than normal. So far only a handful of substances in the laboratory have shown the ability to reverse this process including the experimental drug ALT-711, but human trials were disappointing as the cross-linking of protein with carbon is very complex and would require a cocktail of substances. I know researchers online who discuss anti-aging efforts who at least personally take measures to slow glycoslation in their own bodies using inhibitors like benfotiamine (a form of vitamin b-1), carnosine which has been extensively studied for this in Russia, and P-5-P (a special co-enzymated form of vitamin B-6). These can't break the cross-links, one of the holy grails to reverse aging, but they have been scientifically proven to slow their formation down. They also take measures to make sure their blood sugar levels stay pretty low, including taking the diabetes drug metformin even though they don't have diabetes and sticking to a low calorie diet and weighing less than a normal weight for their bodies.

It is thought that one of the reasons that omega 3 can help the brain involves the new theories about alzheimer's that are starting to generally be accepted in the scientific community. The latest theory is that diseases that affect the brain like alzheimer's and parkinson's are thought to be caused by low grade inflammation and the effects of increased cytokines like interleukin -6 that seem to increase with age. Omega-3, especially the type of omega 3 known as dha has been shown to have an anti-inflammatory effect. This is true of several other natural substances such as curry powder (curcumin).

[NMDemDist2]

4. we totally cut out HFCS about 3 years ago

don't know if we're smarter or not, but hubby's chronic heartburn is a thing of the past.