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Eating Sugar Does Something Strange to Your Memory, and It Lasts Long After You Change Your Diet

Well, that’s not ideal.

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Contrary to the weight you gained when you demolished your kid’s Halloween candy, sugar actually used to be useful. Our early ancestors depended on sugar-rich foods for quick survival calories while hunting and foraging. Back then, grabbing a handful of berries could have been the difference maker between getting dinner and being it. Now, however, the average person unconsciously pounds sugar like they’re manually tilling fields all day, and it might be slowly turning our brains into mush.

According to researchers from the University of Technology Sydney, in a new study published in Nutritional Neuroscience, the team analyzed 27 preclinical studies involving rats and mice fed high-fat, high-sugar diets. Researchers wanted to know........

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