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The Effects Of Sugar On Your Brain (It’s Not Good!)
The negative effects of sugar on our bodies is well documented, but did you know just how terrible sugar is for your brain?
Most people unknowingly consume too much sugar, and the effects on the brain can be devastating.
Impaired memory, stunted learning skills, depression, anxiety and dementia are a few of the side effects of consuming too much sugar.
Huffingtonpost.com reports:
“Many Americans eat about five times the amount of sugar they should consume,” Natasa Janicic-Kahric, an associate professor of medicine at Georgetown University Hospital, told The Washington Post.
It’s easy to see how we can get hooked on sugar. However, we should be aware of the risks that a high-sugar diet poses for brain function and mental well-being.
Here’s what you need to know about how overconsumption of sugar could wreak havoc on your brain.
It creates a vicious cycle of intense cravings.
When a person consumes sugar, just like any food, it activates the tongue’s taste receptors. Then, signals are sent to the brain, lighting up reward pathways and causing a surge of feel-good hormones, like dopamine, to be released. Sugar “hijacks the brain’s reward pathway,” neuroscientist Jordan Gaines Lewis explained. And while stimulating the brain’s reward system with a piece of chocolate now and then is pleasurable and probably harmless, when the reward system is activated too much and too frequently, we start to run into problems.
Be AWARE truthisscary.com
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/04/the-effects-of-sugar-on-your-brain-its-not-good/
