High Fructose Corn Syrup Slows Your Memory to a Crawl

After you eat foods with high fructose corn syrup, your brain slows down. That's what scientists at UCLA found. The researchers trained regular rats for 5 days and taught them how to escape a maze. One group was given plain water, and another group water mixed with concentrated fructose corn syrup, similar in proportion to the typical amount a human gets from foods and drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, for 6 weeks. The researchers then retested their ability to recall the route and escape the maze. Animals on the fructose water took 30% longer to remember and find the exit compared to those who drank plain water. "Our findings suggest that fructose disrupts plasticity - the creation of fresh pathways between brain cells that occurs when we learn or experience something new," said Gomes Pinilla, a member of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. "That's a huge obstacle for anyone to overcome..."

  Imagine your brain slowing down by 30%. No thank you. Of course, the best thing to do is to avoid high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS. But this is not exactly easy because it's everywhere, in beverages and processed foods. The average American consumed 8 teaspoons per day last year, according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. And 90% of HFCS is now just called Fructose or Fructose Syrup. HFCS is also called Concentrated Fruit Juice, Crystalline Fructose, Corn Sugar, Glucose-Fructose, or Maize Syrup. HFCS has not just been linked to cognitive decline, but various studies have also linked it with Obesity, Tupe-2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Elevated "bad" Cholesterol, Liver Damage, Mercury Exposure, and other disorders.























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