Q92: Victoria's Best Music Station » sugar http://kqvt.com Victoria's Best Music Station Thu, 23 May 2013 15:01:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Sugar Is Making You Stupid http://kqvt.com/sugar-affects-brain-functions/ http://kqvt.com/sugar-affects-brain-functions/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 12:25:17 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=122792 We all know that sugar can make you fat. But we eat it anyway because it’s really good.

So what if we were to tell you sugar can also make you dumb? Would you put down your Big Gulp and step away from your Snickers?

]]> http://kqvt.com/sugar-affects-brain-functions/feed/ 0 stringy, Flickr Fatty and Sugary Foods May Be as Addictive as Cocaine and Cigarettes http://kqvt.com/fatty-foods-addictive-cocaine-cigarettes/ http://kqvt.com/fatty-foods-addictive-cocaine-cigarettes/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:32:44 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=58365 There is a growing body of evidence suggesting fatty and sugary foods rewire the brain in the same way drugs like cocaine and nicotine do, leading to addiction.

In recent studies, lab animals who have been fed a diet of sugary and fatty snacks show the classic signs of addiction, and brain scans of obese humans show the same disturbances in their reward circuits as the brains that are found in drug addicts.

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