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Eating sweet food forms memories that maintain healthy habits
Sunday, April 3, 2016 20:09
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Eating something sweet causes the brain to make meal memories, according to a new study. The study consisted of researchers from Georgia State University, Georgia Regents University and Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center. The researchers uncovered that an area of the brain involved in creating memories was activated when a person eats sweet foods.
The dorsal hippocampus, a part of the brain that is vital for the creation of short-term and long-term memory, is used to make episodic memory, which is a memory of first-person events experienced at a precise place and time. According to the study, neurons found in the dorsal hippocampus are triggered when you eat something sweet.
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