PROCESSED fructose leaves you puzzled, and there's something fishy about the solution

Nutrition plays a significant role in metabolic, brain and even psychiatric disorders. Authors of a new paper have revealed just how much of a difference it can make.

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PROCESSED fructose leaves you puzzled, and there's something fishy about the solution 1461643899816

The study, by researchers from the University of California, found fructose consumption affects the genes that control memory and learning, as well as those that relate to our risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Just as poor nutrition can damage the body and brain, good nutrition can heal.

The study, published in the online journal from The Lancet and Cell, found an omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, appeared to reverse the effects of fructose.

To explore the effects of fructose (a naturally occurring sugar in fruit, often refined and added as a sweetener to a variety of processed foods and drinks) and DHA on our health, the researchers split rats they had trained to escape a maze into three groups.

The first group was given water spiked with fructose – about the equivalent of drinking one litre of soft drink each per day – and the second group drank the fructose water but was fed a high-DHA diet, while the third drank normal water and had no DHA.

When the rats ran through the maze again after six weeks on the diet, the fructose group were twice as slow at finding their way out. The DHA rats and the control rats navigated the maze at about the same speed, suggesting the DHA offset the effects of the fructose.

"Food is like a pharmaceutical compound that affects the brain," said co-author Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a UCLA professor of neurosurgery and of integrative biology and physiology.

Co-author Xia Yang said: "DHA changes not just one or two genes; it seems to push the entire gene pattern back to normal, which is remarkable."

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PROCESSED fructose leaves you puzzled, and there's something fishy about the solution

PROCESSED fructose leaves you puzzled, and there's something fishy about the solution

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