Its impossible to avoid them. For decades weve been surrounded by sweet and fattening food. And the body has not been doing well with these eating out. But what about the brain and. Do our Mental Health our moon and our brain abilities suffer from the wrong kind of nutrition. We know that john seed is spiking as fast but science is telling us now that it might also be shrinking out right. Brain researchers are joined the dining table to study the year facts of our eating out. Dots the high in fat and sugar in the long term need to change isnt part of the brain over to. Mrs aris in field of research. I developed being science and spotlights a new 1st set of nutrition. Fichu and search for fruits of irish sugar or salt into reprogramming of the brain in short our brain is affected by what is on our plates. And starts with our very 1st meals even before birth. The brain is built up during pregnancy. Powered functions later on depends on how it has been nourished by the expectant mothers diet over 9 months. The number of consequences of poor nutrition during gestation have been known for a long time. Todays scientists in australia are looking at the repercussions of nutrition on brain function. Released jacka a professor at the university of melbourne examined the behavior of babies after following the eating habits of 23000 pregnant women. We measure their intake of junk and closeness food squeamish if theyre in spite of the Healthful Foods foods with lots of fiber and nutrients it sets up and then we looked at the Emotional Health of their children over the 1st teams of loss and i saying months to 5 years of course taking into account things such as education income the mothers Mental Health parenting practices they sorts of things and what we saw very clearly was that mothers who white more injunction closers food so sweet. Drink some soap to sniff some you know tight space suits during their pregnancy but shouldnt have moved things behavior was such a great shock and anger and tension. Hes describing correlation suggests that the mothers diet impacts the Mental Development of the baby so the link remains to be demonstrated on the biological level. In any case billys jacka is convinced. So what we also saw in this logical wage and studies that the children start saying to be important as well independent of what. If children were 18 too much junk and processed foods and or not enough of the Healthful Foods they had more of these anger and aggressive taught behaviors but also sadness sayings i actually worry not me is. Since then professor jackers conclusion so its been confirmed by studies in spain the netherlands and canada excess fountain sugar are now in the science of scientists working on the brain. Excesses and deficiencies junk food is often low on essential nutrients so it leaves the body and especially the nerve cells lacking. In this laboratory at the university of bordeaux scientists are studying the consequences of dietary deficiencies on mouse brains. This experiment is used to measure anxiety. The animal has the choice between exploring the lighted area or hiding in the shade. A normal mouse takes the time to examine the lighted area. But this animal was deprived of a mega 3 fatty acids during his development omega 3 these are called good friends due to their benefits to the heart and arteries instead of exploring the environment the mouse takes refuge in a dark corner its stressed anxious. The experiment has been reproduced many. Times on dozens of mice for researchers this strange behavior can be simply explained without omega 3 fatty acids the brain does not develop and function normally. They are needed because the brains grey matter is 90 percent fat which it cannot produce itself as that was the brain is the organ after adipose tissue thats the richest in polyunsaturated fatty acid or in the get 3 wides so when they get 3 is indispensable because the body cannot make it we have to ingest it it has to come from the diet and want us all. Corley fish organ meat version real oils and seeds and not such as allman said longer in the main sources or may go 3 for humans but these foods have become scarce in the cuisine of industrialized countries. The amount of omega 3 the doctors the brain is crucial for making brain cells more efficient because when these fatty acids are incorporated into the membranes of nerve cells they improve their Electrical Properties you know make a 3 rich neurons the signals propagate faster. The network is more efficient depriving the brain of omega 3 is linked to a risk that it will function less well. I look at the souls and the general population is deficient a number 3 we have insufficient intake of in the 3 so its important to Pay Attention to it especially in the prenatal developmental period during this period omega 3 embeds itself in massive quantities into the brain cells also in adolescence when theres often a change of food and during aging where the incorporation into the brain of the nigga 3 tends to be less effective so we must increase its intake of wanting a closer we get. The 1st rule for a brain to run at full speed is of void deficiencies. For good nutrients and a very dark should be available what happens to neurons when meals are poor and above all always the same there is a problem that is now affecting the wild living european hamster which thrived for a long time in the plains or frances us us ration. It since the 1960 s. Theres been a decline in the hamster population which is on the verge of extinction today and at the same time weve noticed an increase in the agricultural area where corn is cultivated. Currently in our board wondered whether the collapse of the population was linked to the sudden clucked of corn. So she did an experiment feeding hamsters exclusively corn. During breeding we observed behavioral disturbances in females which resulted in hyper aggression and hyper sensitivity as soon as there was noise in the room we want to. Change the list. Above all what we did not expect is that these females would devour their young the 1st day after birth this behave. It was observed in more than 80 percent of females. That dietary deficiency was enough to make a hamster deep our x. Children because a simple vitamin. Think of vitamin b 3 deficiency is at the origin of the abnormal behavior when we supplemented them with vitamin b 3 in addition to their corn based diet they expressed quite normal behaviors and they began to nurse their young to raise them in the same way as the females that were fed a diversified diet theres. The case of the cannibalistic hamsters is disturbing. Could an unbalanced diet also trigger aggressive violent behavior and humans. Are. Upset a bird is a clinical psychologist and political advisor to the Dutch Ministry of justice his specialty nutrition and crime. Hes convinced that enriching food with vitamins fatty acids and minerals can reduce aggression. But its a hypothesis that its difficult to test a normal life because so many factors and circumstances can influence our behavior and our impulses. In order to study nutrition without the influence of the many parameters he chose prisons as a nearly ideal setting. In a lot happened and here in the netherlands we conducted a study of young prisoners in 8 different prisons who do all of the demand for 3 months we get them vitamins and minerals and fatty acid supplements and then we looked at the effect on their behavior. We measured it in 2 different ways of the father and the 1st we asked the detainees how aggressive they were and we asked the supervisors for their views on the issue incidental above all we looked at the incident log the number of times detainees were punished and we saw that some she confinement and fallen dramatically. After all but my other side of course. In the group of inmates whose meals were improved the number of incidents was reduced by one 3rd. Of. What we may have the power to change or moves to stimulate certain impulses. But could the food on our plate also influence our decisions the ones we believe we make using our free will. As a venue been mentioned when i pull or ask if they think that the food that they eat has an impact on health and most answer yes. Then when asked if diet can also influence thoughts and decisions very few people are willing to believe this is the case and this cancer fit a lot in it for us then. However at the institute of psychology of the university of liberty and germany professor so young parklands with the 1st time prove. That. Her work reveals the mechanism by which food could influence our thoughts and for that the researcher has developed a rather original experiment and. Imagine that you face the following dilemma. The money on the table is to be divided into 2 sums but its your partner a stranger who decides how it is to be distributed. I get you to yours and i keep a for me. If you accept the unfair offer you leave with a little money but much less than your partners. If you refuse no one wins anything so what would you do. Do you accept the offer and take the 2 year olds even if you feel cheated or do you refuse and leave with empty pockets but your head held high. Well it turns out surprisingly that whether youll take the money or not depends on what youve just eaten. And these are stored as part of this study we follow 24 people who came into the laboratory twice to have 2 different breakfasts. For us via 1st thing we found that the same person made completely different decisions based on what the ate in the morning because on the. To the test person the 2 breakfasts look the same in reality one is a far more protein rich than the other. The ratio of protein to sugar is the only parameter the changes. A few hours after the meal the subject takes several test on a computer. Today he accepts the offer his selfinterest outweighs his anger at the unfairness and he will leave with a little money in his pocket. Last week he mainly refused and won almost no. Wanted to put on this subject having consumed a high protein breakfast in the morning was tolerant of unfair offers tolo. On fitness on get what feel like yet conversely the subject to consume the high carbohydrate brecht 1st having was less tolerant in the face of unfair offers yet. On average the subjects who had little protein rejected unfair offers this wise is often. But how can the surprising result be explained in their search for biological evidence for this observation the scientists carried out blood tests and will send the blood to liberace for analysis we will measure the level of hormones in amino acids in the blood i mean the whole moans were interested in insulin cortisol adrenaline and adreno cortico tropic hormone and for amino acids trip to fun and tyras in total fall of 2 or 3. Of these substances the most important is tyrosine the amino acid is one Building Block of a protein that is key to brain function to open e. This molecule ensures communication between neurons involved in motivation and risk taking. The results of the Blood Analysis show that subjects with higher levels of tyras in their blood are more willing to accept the unfair offer. You know other words what we eat can within hours subtly alter the chemistry of the brain and thus the communication between the neurons. Enough to guide some of our decisions. Experiments are continuing in the back to confirm this result the implications are wide ranging. The member thing does that since i eat 3 times a day every day is we realize that food has immense power that of modifying and shaping mankind norm and so its essential to think about how we can use food to promote our wellbeing and optimize our mental state or to own up to me and thus. Not only does an unbalanced diet affect our brain functions and behavior and our meal plan interfere with daily decision as it also becomes increasingly clear that diet plays a decisive role in our mood and possibly Mental Health. But what about junk food dripping with sugar and bad fats. What would happen if we ate more of that meat. This is the focus of research here in australia at the university of sydney. Moderate morris runs a laboratory where rats are fed the kind of junk food that you find in supermarkets for cheap fast food restaurants. Eriks permits use a range of worst and foods at the time taken by all of us so we feed our rats meat pies chips cakes and biscuits the sorts of foods. Eventually available and cheap so well model in the western world. The 1st consequence of this diet the rat doubles its food ration as. The animal never seems to share. But thats not the most surprising outcome. One of our chief interests is the impact of his diet on the animals memory and we can measure this is lee in the rat using a task known as the novel object and novel place task. In this test the researcher places objects in the rats cage. The animal comes over immediately to examine the. Rodents are very curious by nature. Once its completed its examination and memorized its surroundings its temporarily removed we then place the animal in the arena with one object thats been shifted. But its return the rat spends more time examining the object that is changed places because it already knows the other objects there engraved in its memory. The rats stuffed full of bad foods or behave differently. What we observe is the animals eating a high fat diet or a hard sugar diet or the combined high fat high sugar foods well less im able to recognize to remember that that object had moved they explored the 2 objects a path a sign that shows any payment at this spatial memory. The overfed rants have not only damaged spatial memory but also other malfunctions that sound a warning signal from the scientists they point to damages in the hippocampus a small region nestled in the center of the brain. Its essential for learning and the consolidation of memory. Recent studies show that in humans the 2 energy rich diet also interferes with their program perhaps. They say for example that the quality of peoples diets is related to the size of the hit the campus to the size of they gripe and what measure of value and theyre starting to be intervention studies so for example we say that only 4 days on junk food talk diet will have an impact on colpus the functions that are related to the hippocampus. Margaret morris is now seeking to understand how triggering and fatty foods disrupt the brain of her rats to the point of affecting their performance. She has a hypothesis namely eating too much sugar triggers an inflammatory reaction that spreads to the neurons. So in response to these foods theres a general inflammatory response all around the body this is being bogus crime in obesity but it now appears to be caught in acute response as well and what we find is that inflammatory molecules such as not a concert increased your response to the don. And overly rich diet confuses the immune system. It responds by triggering an inflammatory reaction especially in fatty tissues. Are fat masses release substances that then propagate this inflammation throughout the body. Neurons were thought to be spared this effect behind the protective blood brain barrier the semi permeable membrane that separates the circulating blood vessels from the brain. So this increased inflammation in the halls the body and we think that this may spread to the brain thats because the blood brain barrier which normally protects the brain from inflammatory molecules may be impaired in fact by the time that and become leaky allowing traffic of molecules into the brain. And the inflammation infiltrates them in n. G. s and then triggers a surprising phenomena. In her laboratory sophie louis has shown in her overfed mice that certain immune cells in the brain the microbe little cells begin to devour neurons. A signal called these microbial souls within the brain are important because they can eat dead nearly as little hood when theyre deregulated especially in a situation of on balanced nutrition they start to eat year olds that are reliant their fold i consuming these neurons in excess of numbers eventually they will destroy all participate in the destruction of Neural Networks that that includes neurons that are alive and that should be functional divot functioning. This reaction of the microbe loyal cells could be filmed in vitro. All the images show how energetically they move. The red objects or fragment. Of neurons that they ingest. In are obese mouse their activity becomes frenetic all mr nominee who is suspected of significantly affecting the functioning of the brain all the warning. Signs of people for 13 years dont age things fade she might have a heart attack you might get cancer and diabetes it hasnt worked to change peoples behavior we hope that if people understand that what i put in them mouth is actually really essential to the health of their brian and that of the children that might have a more profound impact on peoples daughtry choices. Microscope micro manipulator and ultrasensitive recorder. So view for men to use at the helm of an operetta is the can record the electrical activity of a single neuron. The principle is simple a slice of mouse brain is immersed in a liquid that keeps it alive. The researcher approaches it carefully with an electrode. Its a meticulous operation. Its usually thought here i go down the people that in the slice of brain in and along and now we will approach this recording people at near the neuron to make contact. Thats it we made contact and now we will be able to measure the electrical activity of the neuro that he did it we could you know. It peak up and peaks that we see a potential areas for action here in the form of this is how neurons in code information. The time that he lapses between the peaks is the message sent by the neuron. Meant to normal now will increase the glucose concentration in the bath and we will see if this cell responds to increase and concentration of plutos. As it can be seen here this cell responds to the increase with more electrical activity but there is more potential for action than what could be seen here before the increasing concussed concentration. In this signal comes from a single cell but in the brain the neurons are all connected to each other. And that makes the scientists suspect that glucose has the ability to modify the activity of an entire brain areas and the controlled emotions and pleasure. Is this how sugar ensures its grip on our will. This is for the moment on the hypothesis but today sugar addiction. It is the subject of Intense Research in laboratories and what appears more and more clear is that the power of sugar is similar to that of a drug. Search of magic is one of the 1st to provide proof with a very simple experiment. Step one he raised around giving them cocaine in sugar. Land after weeks of this diet he presented the animals with a choice. Because of all of this through through we have the situation in which the animal has the choice between a lever that is connected to a syringe that contains a drug solution is and the drug in question is a hard drug like cocaine and heroin and on the left a lever allows him to control a syringe that contains a sweet drink and there we see the animal chooses to take the sweet drink. The rats selected the sugar water 4 times more often than the drugs. It cant be called a glucose overdose but the every present will desire is plain to see. I think spoke with them so this experiment simply shows that sugar has more addictive potential dont we had imagined an easy perhaps Even Stronger than the pull of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin we. Heard. Today we live in a Food Environment thats a little crazy. We find sugar in a lot of foods as we would expect it. In sugary drinks. But we also find sugar in foods that are not meant to be sweet such as how well soup was we could cite other examples but its adding sugar to these foods the contributes to the fact that we make people addicted to it without them knowing you through. Here at the Oregon Research institute the influence of sweet food on the human brain is being investigated. What this program of researchers revealed is that a betrayal consumption of Energy Dense Food alters your neural circuitry and exactly the same way of consumption of drugs appears. Eric stice recruited about 100 students half of whom regularly eat ice cream while the others never ate. They all came to the laboratory to drink a milk shake inside an m. R. I. Device and give the researchers a peek into their brain activity. Create cases so what were going to do today is give you a chart cannot shirk and record the brain activity in your entire brain as youre receiving anticipate receiving chalk and not check to look at the neural basis of consuming Energy Dense Foods. But test subjects can sip the milkshake through the tubes without moving their heads. What we found out is that the people who never eat ice cream you could trace the reward circuitry everything lit up just beautifully and it activated things are very strongly about in contrast to people who ate ice cream every day showed a very diminished response there was hardly any activation whatsoever illustrating the regular intake of Energy Dense Foods really reduces the pleasure you experience when you consume those foods. The reward circuit is a region of the brain that controls the feeling of pleasure that is particularly responsive to sugar consumption but eating too much ends up weakening its responsiveness so that at the same dose the sensations of pleasure are ultimately reduced. And eric stice is experiment reveals another more subtle perhaps more pernicious effect. After a diet too rich in sugar the brain becomes hypersensitive to images of food. The more and more you eat ice cream the last unless the reward circuitry is recruited when you consume ice cream but the more your reward circuitry is or is activated when you see cues that say you might get ice cream so your brain your reward circuitry fires up when you see an Ice Cream Store as youre driving down the street or you see a commercial for ice cream on the television the reward circuitry activates much more for people who eat ice cream all the time that it does for people who dont. Prophesied in the absence of hunger that drives obesity and weight gain. This direct influence of food on our brain plays a crucial role in what we choose to eat each day. What happens in the brain at the moment we pick a dessert rather than an appetizer or fish rather than red meat who is really pulling the strings. Carlos rubio and his team are leading researchers on food choices. What we really want is to find all the components all the genes the molecules the neurons which direct feeding decisions and for that we have to be able to look at very. Small effects. The simplicity of this animal model the flying makes it possible to explore new avenues and new hypotheses. To understand the feeding of the fly connells would be our own has developed a machine that modern. Turns the insect choices in great detail. Good to begin with. When its touching the food which is in the other electrode with its target the process then we can measure that with a sensor here which is the same sensor which you use on your i pad on your i phone to detect a touch on the screen just out here we dont detect the touch screen for the touch of the food and so we can move freely no dissect that underlies the choice of the fly sheets protein but also when shes eating from the different foods how it eats how much it eats how fast it eat how often it eats i really dissect all the details of the decisions which are controlled by the brain. Thanks to this technique hes been able to prove that the main reason for choosing food is 1st of all deficiencies. Naturally flies that lack protein will choose protein rich food. But looking more closely the bureau observed that this is not always the case. Sometimes actually we had some flies which didnt have this strong urge to eat protein and then we were wondering why that was the case right and so when we looked at it turned out that the florists which had no craving for protein had got microbes and so often following up on many experiments we could show that there are 2 specific got microbes which when they are in the fly they suppress protein for protein appetite and therefore these 2 microbes have a very important influence on protein cravings influence. Flies when choosing their diet are influenced by the bacteria in their gut. This unexpected discovery raises an important question does the human intestinal flora called the micro biome also act on our brains. Do our gut bacteria play a role in our food preferences. At the University College cork in ireland jon cryer and does Pioneering Research on the micro biome. Hes been able to prove that gut bacteria can influence certain behaviors in animals as well. When you take. Microbes from highly anxious mice and transplant them to normal anxious mice they become much more anxious and vice versa that even when you take them from normal you can normalize the stress response and then. Scientists now even consider the micro biome to be a kind of intermediary a link between food and the brain the main factor that influences the composition of these microbes is the food we take dyers and the diversity of the diet is really important from the moment were born until we die in shaping the composition of the microbes and so were beginning to realize the importance that what we eat has on whats in our microbes and how thats influencing whats going on in our brain. Our well being depends in one way or another on our micro biome. A diet that is good for our mood is 1st and foremost and done at the 2 suitable for the bacteria in our intestines. This is led to the idea of using food to pamper the brain and maintain Mental Health. And to do. Its the famous mediterranean diet that has the scientists excited. The traditional mediterranean diet is really high in a diverse range of plant food so lots of differently think grains and different colored vegetables but also for its very importantly link you so this is your beans and lentils and she pays nothing not some seeds fish and of course always boil all of always a very important component of the mediterranean diet and we think that that diversity leads to more diversity in the guttmacher by ourself the bunker part of that weve been out gosh and that diversity in the god has been linked to good health outcomes. We ran the 1st study last year where we recruited 67. 00 people with major depression i received autrey support with a clinical dietitian now over a 3 month period this trial took place and at the end of that when we measured their depression again we saw that the degree of chinese in their diet correlated with the degree of change in their depression so the more they move towards a mediterranean diet the more their depression improved. Using diet to serve the brain. Its an idea thats catching on. Scientists are now exploring all kinds of clues. Spices used for centuries in traditional indian medicine are now being studied for their benefit for Mental Health. Bread fruits and berries of awakened by expectations the poly phenols they contain might be able to rejuvenating neurons on the decline. Are red fruits and spices the miracle ingredients for eternally young neurons. Its still too early to say for sure. Researchers are only just beginning to one cover the secrets of the remarkable relationship between nutrition and the brain. The ideal menu for our little gray cells is still largely unknown but a balanced diverse diet which does without processed food and sugar and favors fruits and vegetables seems so far to be the best recipe for preserving the mental faculties. Like grandmother said you are what you eat so eat well and what were realizing now is that science is beginning to understand how true she was the light at all if we limited the deficiencies with that reduced crime too early to say what we do know is that when you bet on Healthy Eating it has effects on behavior because the more we overeat snickers bars we become hyper vigilant to snicker curious and weed oscars and we create that monster are some sort the best thing to do if you have kids or those feed them Healthy Foods and not getting used to getting this kind of crop. I cant believe i just said crops are. Sound. 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