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Old 08-08-2008, 08:43 AM   #1
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Fizzy drinks, the scourge of healthy diet campaigners, can improve your memory, according to experts today.

Consuming the equivalent of two cans of soft drink can boost memory retention by a fifth and combat dementia in older people, found neuroscientists from Glasgow Caledonian University.
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Psychology lecturer Dr Leigh Riby, who led the research, said people studying for exams could benefit from increasing the amount of sugar in their diet.

He focused on an area of the brain known as the hippocampus, which creates new memories but declines with the onset of dementia.

Dr Riby used a series of memory tests and brain-imaging techniques to assess how volunteers responded after guzzling sugary drinks.  

He found the hippocampus lit up with activity after participants had a sweetened drink and they were able to recall 17 per cent more than without a drink.

He said: "It is widely accepted that when humans face a stressful situation they experience a natural rise in glucose in the body, particularly in the hippocampus.

"They also tend to remember these dangerous or scary occurrences more clearly than other memories.

"This glucose-memory system has evolved to help humans survive. Unfortunately, it is compromised in old age."
Twenty-five volunteers aged between 18 and 52 years old took part in the study and were asked to remember a list of words.
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Old 05-30-2010, 11:18 AM   #2
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Consuming the equivalent of two cans of soft drink can boost memory retention by a fifth and combat dementia in older people, found neuroscientists from Glasgow Caledonian University. Sodas? This completely opposite from what I've read. I read that they can damage your memory not boost them.
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Old 05-30-2010, 11:42 AM   #3
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I didn't know or read about this either. Is this true?
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Old 05-30-2010, 11:52 AM   #4
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Sounds like a scam to me.. There is no way sodas can boost memory. Sugar was probably responsible for it.
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