Items Tagged ‘Dr. Fernando Gomez-Pinilla’

May 24, 2012

Can Sugar Make You Stupid? “High Concern” in Wake of Rat Study

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We all know sugary diets can sabotage a waistline. Now it turns out they might make brains flabby too. Sweet drinks scrambled the memories and stunted learning in lab rats in a new study—leading to “thigh concern” over what sugary diets may do to people, according to neuroscientist Fernando Gomez-Pinilla.…The next task for the team […]

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Tags: Dr. Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, Dr. Jill Barnes, National Geographic, sugar