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Recent studies show that sugar could be a trigger for brain diseases. But at what quantities can sugar become harmful to health and what are the consequences for the brain?
DIABETES AND DEMENTIA
We now know that high blood sugar levels also increase the risk of dementia in diabetics.
“Of the 1.7 million people with dementia in Germany, you see a lot of people with diabetes. We have known for a long time that diabetes affects the brain. You can roughly say: Dementia occurs about twice as often in people with diabetes,” explains Dr. Andrej Zeyfang, geriatrician and diabetologist. SUGAR HAS AN INFLUENCE
In a recent study, researchers at the University of Tübingen were able to prove that sugar has a direct influence on the brain.
The team around Dr. Thorsten Schmidt and his colleague Priscila Sena examined the interaction of proteins and enzymes in the brain and asked themselves what role sugar plays in this. The focus was primarily on neurodegenerative diseases, i.e. diseases that particularly attack the brain - such as Alzheimer's. PREVENTION AND NUTRITIONAL TRAPS
“Dementia is actually a disease that is very well suited for prevention because it has a decades-long history and risk factors are known.
And one of the most important, most common factors is increased blood sugar, which can be influenced. And we then advise the participants to eat accordingly, that is, to avoid carbohydrates,” explains Prof. Georg Adler, ISPG Mannheim. But there are nutritional traps, as Professor Adler shows in the consultation: “A breakfast, for example muesli, into which you cut a banana, has the properties of vanilla ice cream with cream in terms of nutritional content.
If you see this as a snack, it looks very healthy at first glance, but apples are also extremely high-sugar fruits and whole grain bread, like all bread, contains around 60 percent carbohydrates. From the point of view of avoiding carbohydrates, for example berries the superior fruits because they contained less sugar than bananas or apples. In general, a so-called “Mediterranean diet” with lots of vegetables and few carbohydrates could have a long-term positive effect on preventing dementia.
Source: SWR Marktcheck
Author: Claudius Auer
Image source: Colourbox
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