New Research: 'Sugar Coma' May Slow Down Your Brain
New Research: 'Sugar Coma' May Slow Down Your Brain
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As the new research has come out that now the side effects of sugar crash can slow down the functioning of the brain. Are you one of them who feel a little lazy after eating sugar or a big meal? Or do you endure immense laziness just after having a yummy dessert? Then maybe you are apparently feeling the effects of a sugar crash, which may slow down your brain function, a research implies. In the study, participants demonstrated reduced attention and response times after consuming glucose or table sugar, compared to those who consumed fructose (fruit sugar) or artificial sweetener sucralose (the placebo).

"Our study suggests that the 'sugar coma' - with regards to glucose - is indeed a real phenomenon, where levels of attention seem to decline after consumption of glucose-containing sugar," Mei Peng, a lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand, said 'PsyPost'.

"In particular, how sugar consumption might change the way our brains work. In the case of sweetness perception, we have evolved to favor this taste," said Peng. Well, in the newest study published in the journal Physiology & Behavior, 49 individuals consumed sweetened drinks containing either glucose, sucrose, fructose, or sucralose before completing three cognitive tests.

The tests consisted of a simple response time task and a measurement of arithmetic processing.The researchers also measured the participants' blood glucose levels during the testing. They found that participants who had consumed glucose or sucrose tended to perform worse on the cognitive tests than those who had consumed fructose or sucralose.

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