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This is big. Highlights: •Glucose and sucrose ingestion led to negative cognitive performances. •Negative effects due to blood glucose increase were more evid
by imwillofficial 6y ago
This is big.
Highlights:
•Glucose and sucrose ingestion led to negative cognitive performances.
•Negative effects due to blood glucose increase were more evident with overnight fasting.
•Sugar effects on cognitive abilities are likely to be glucose-mediated.
•Sweetness perception does not play a role in moderating cognitive performances.
- siltpotato 6y agoSo diet cola doesn't make you dumber?
- esperent 6y agoN=49 Interesting results, but I'd take them with a grain of sugar until they get replicated several times over. Especially since they match my bias that sugar=bad.
- chrisweekly 6y agowordplay on the idiom "take it with a grain of salt" ^ for the sake of non-native speakers I appreciate what you did there.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoIt's actually even worse than that. I don't have access to the paper, but they had 8 conditions (3 sugars + placebo * fasting|non fasting). That's basically six people per condition. I assume that they did some kind of repeated measures design (although the abstract doesn't say), but the numbers reported are most likely to be statistical noise, especially without preregistration or standard analytical methods.