Sweets Can Lower Physical and Psychological Stress
“We actually found that sugar snacks, not artificially sweetened snacks, are better self-medications for the two most common types of stress–psychological and physical,” explains Yvonne Ulrich-Lai, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati who led the study.
Multiple blood samples taken from the rats who were fed with sugar water twice daily for two weeks showed lower levels of stress hormones, glucocorticoids, than those who were given saccharin solution or just plain water before being subjected to psychological or physical duress, according to research presented yesterday at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C.
Source: Scientific American
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