Study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory.

Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid...

A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning — and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption. The peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology publishes the findings in its May 15 edition.

The UCLA team zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar, that is commonly added to processed foods, including soft drinks, condiments, applesauce and baby food. The average American consumes more than 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "We're not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants," explained Gomez-Pinilla, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute and Brain Injury Research Center. "We're concerned about high-fructose corn syrup that is added to manufactured food products as a sweetener and preservative."

Originally posted by Ameilia
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Your link is currently going to this article:

New Findings May Hold Key to Gaia Hypothesis

I believe the source you meant to link is this one:

Sugar Makes You Stupid: Study Shows High-Fructose Diet Sabotages Learning, Memory

I also believe that this article is not talking about sugar but rather it is talking about high fructose corn syrup. These are two entirely different things.

The UCLA team zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar, that is commonly added to processed foods, including soft drinks, condiments, applesauce and baby food. The average American consumes more than 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "We're not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants," explained Gomez-Pinilla, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute and Brain Injury Research Center. "We're concerned about high-fructose corn syrup that is added to manufactured food products as a sweetener and preservative."

This makes your thread title totally incorrect, if you would like to rephrase.

Originally posted by Miraj
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They are pretty much the same thing, if you look into the chemistry.

The only difference between 'sugar' and Fructose, is that sugar has a weak bond connecting fructose and glucose, which dissolves about roughly the second it hits stomach acid.

This makes your thread title totally incorrect

"We're not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants," explained Gomez-Pinilla, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute and Brain Injury Research Center. "We're concerned about high-fructose corn syrup that is added to manufactured food products as a sweetener and preservative."

Originally posted by elevenaugust
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Oupps, sorry everyone, I mixed up some other links I work on...
Thanks to Gemwolf for the correction.

This makes your thread title totally incorrect

Not mine, but MedicalXpress title, and BTW, if you read the whole paper, they clearly make the difference between High-fructose corn syrup and naturally fructose:

"We're not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants," explained Gomez-Pinilla, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute and Brain Injury Research Center. "We're concerned about high-fructose corn syrup that is added to manufactured food products as a sweetener and preservative."

edit on 16-5-2012 by elevenaugust because: (no reason given)

Originally posted by g146541
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Thank you for being the first to point out that sugar is NOT High Fructose Corn Syrup, as they are most definately NOT the same animal.
The "obesity epidemic" started about 35ish years ago, and HFCS was introduced to the US public,... that's right 35ish years ago.
Humans have been using sugar, honey, molasses, Etc. (real sweetners) for a looooong time and no "obesity epidemic", pu an abombination sweetner in the food supply and look what happens.
The title on the OP's article was not wrong, it was written that way on purpose and I suspect both you and I know exactly why.
Shame on US for being duped so easily by men in long white coats...