Wake Up! The Sugar Coma Is A Real Thing!!!
Recent research has found that sugar intake may impair brain function soon after ingestion.
Sugar is a necessity for energy production and consumption within our bodies. The carbohydrate form that it comes in is broken down into simple sugars that are processed by insulin and moved into our cells to be used as short-term energy. Glucose is a good sugar and an important form of complex carbohydrates that provides energy. Fructose is another sugar commonly found in fruit, however, when it's not paired with fiber (as is the case when not eaten as fruit) it can overwhelm the liver's ability to process it. Excess intake of sugar can lead to mood swings and weight gain, as can be seen in the more recent focus of the CDC to reduce sugar consumption more-so than fat. A more recent study, however, has shown that sugar may also impair cognitive function in some scenarios.
Researchers from New Zealand conducted a study using 49 individuals that consumed soft drinks containing either glucose, sucrose, fructose, or sucralose before completing three cognitive tests (a simple response time task, a measure of arithmetic time task, and the Stroop task). The participant's blood glucose levels were measured during the tests and ultimately found that those who consumed glucose or sucrose tended to perform worse on cognitive tests than those who consumed fructose or sucralose. The
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