Eating more fructose additives will make people stupid

According to the daily mail of May 17, researchers from the University of California in the United States recently published an article in the Journal of physiology, saying that eating more foods with high fructose additives will make people stupid, resulting in the decline of memory and other brain functions According to the report, the author conducted a comparative experiment on rats, one group of rats was fed with corn syrup with high fructose content, and the other group of rats was fed normally At the beginning of the experiment, the researchers asked the mice to walk the maze with road signs After six weeks of eating, the researchers tested the ability of the mice to recall the maze route, and found that the rats in the high sugar diet group had a slow response and decreased brain function Professor Fernando Gomez Pinilla, one of the authors of the article, described a group of mice that ate high sugar food: "their brain cells sent signals that were faulty, making it difficult for them to think clearly and remember the routes they had taken in the past." Long term diets high in fructose can affect the brain's ability to learn and remember, Pinera said The good news, however, is that eating nuts and fish, such as salmon, can balance the effects of sugar These foods contain n-3 unsaturated fatty acids, which can reduce the negative effects of high sugar foods It is reported that the low-cost corn syrup in the experiment is high in fructose, six times sweeter than ordinary sucrose, but it is a common raw material for processing food such as soft drinks Professor Pinera said that the fructose they said is not the fructose naturally contained in fruits, but the high fructose corn syrup used as an additive and sweetener in processed foods According to reports, there have been many studies on fructose causing obesity, diabetes, fatty liver and other problems, but this study on the influence of sugar on brain function is still the first.