What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar

Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by tomjen3 on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:37AM (#9171465)

Citation needed. Especially about the mostly plants part. We know humans couldn't have gotten the brains we have without eating meat.

Also Aspatarme is likely less dangerous than sugar.

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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by blparker on Monday March 09, 2015 @12:01PM (#9171653)

I'm interested in that last statement regarding aspartame. It seems you find extremely polarized opinions on artificial sweeteners. I've often read that, regardless of the health impact (or lack thereof), artificial sweeteners are more-or-less "tricking" your body into thinking it has calories incoming, when in fact, it doesn't. Your body, feeling jipped, tries to compensate by craving more calories. But, again, this is hearsay.

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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by tomjen3 on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:06PM (#9174719)

The Mayo clinic disagree with you: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/exper...

The diabetus journal seems to agree with you (I was unable to follow what they had found completely) http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/30/7/e59.long

Finally (N=1) I drink way more aspartame sweetened soda than any sane person should and I was relatively easily able to shred roughly 1/3 of body weight without serious hunger.

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