Researchers find link between sugar, diabetes and aggression

[The Straight Story]

Researchers find link between sugar, diabetes and aggression

A spoonful of sugar may be enough to cool a hot temper, at least for a short time, according to new research.

A study found that people who drank a glass of lemonade sweetened with sugar acted less aggressively toward a stranger a few minutes later than did people who consumed lemonade with a sugar substitute.

Researchers believe it all has to do with the glucose, a simple sugar found in the bloodstream that provides energy for the brain.

"Avoiding aggressive impulses takes self control, and self control takes a lot of energy. Glucose provides that energy in the brain," said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University.

"Drinking sweetened lemonade helped provide the short-term energy needed to avoid lashing out at others."

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-link-sugar-diabetes-aggression.html

[lildreamer316]

1. I wonder if that's the reason we as a people are so addicted to it.

*tin foil hat on*
..keeps us compliant?
Eh, I don't know.

[patrice]

5. It is, at minimum, a reward, a superficial one anyway, that can be repeated and repeated, distractin

g you from what you really want/need.

[eleny]

2. Lotsa Splenda at DU

:rofl:

[Duer 157099]

3. Makes sense. I bet it also explains why

dieting and PMS result in the same thing.

[Skip Intro]

4. ya think? I gave up sugar a long time ago, well, "added sugar," I'll still have an apple

or some grapes, but regular soda or sugar-sweets, nope.

Now, do the artificial sweeteners do my mind and body harm? I don't know, but they won't give me diabetes, and I don't feel like I'm going to pass out from them, like I did when I was a kid and ate boxes of cap'n crunch, little debbie cakes, and sugar cookies.

[laconicsax]

6. Wait? There's a connection between sugar and diabetes?

:hide: