Maggie Harrison – Futurism.com Aug 18, 2022
In a new study, a team of researchers found that feeding rats soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi caused enough damage to the unfortunate critters’ brains to trigger memory issues, cognitive impairment, and cellular distress.
Of course, soda isn’t exactly considered health food. It’s absolutely packed with sweeteners, real and fake, and studies far and wide have confirmed that sugars like those found in soft drinks lead to health conditions including diabetes, heart disease, tooth decay, and liver complications, to name a few.
But according to the new research, consistent, long-term consumption of sugary, cola-based soft drinks specifically may also be directly linked to brain health and behavioral issues — and, apparently, the inability to make one’s way through a maze. (If you’re a rat, that is.)
In order to study how cola-based sodas — which were chosen for study due to their prevalence in many modern human diets — might impact the rats’ brains, the scientists first separated the rats into three age groups: 2-month, 8-month, and 14-month olds. Each of those age groups were then split into water-drinking and cola-and-water-drinking cohorts.
After 57 days, the scientists ran the rodents through some maze-based behavior testing, and ten days after that, the rats were euthanized so that the scientists could then examine any differences in their brains.
Upon examination, the water-drinking rodents were perfectly fine. The soda sippers? Not so much.
During the behavioral tests, the scientists found that most of the soda-drinkers, specifically the 2- and 8- month olds, had worse memories and, generally, lower cognitive function than their purist counterparts — thus causing some serious difficulty when they tried to get around those damn mazes.
Poor guys. But considering what the scientists discovered when they opened up the creatures’ craniums, that’s not terribly surprising.
A closer look at the rattos’ brains confirmed that the soda groups had all sustained varying degrees of damage to the frontal cortex, which controls vital mental functions like attention, memory, and judgement, as well as the hippocampus, which plays a major role in both memory and learning.
Neurological damage is never a positive thing. But frankly, not being able to make their way through mazes would perhaps have been the least of the rats’ problems, if they’d been left alive. In humans, frontal cortex damage has also been linked to personality changes and over-impulsivity, while injury to the hippocampus is thought to play a significant role in illnesses like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and more.
It’s important to remember that this study is grounded in long-term exposure. If a rat were to barely drink cola — maybe just order a glass at dinner from time to time — it would probably be fine, a likelihood supported by the fact that the oldest rats, whose brains were most fully-formed, were least affected by soda rations. But a rat that drinks Coke or Pepsi every day… well, that’s a different story.
It’s also key to point out that rats aren’t people, so we can’t recommend that the CDC updates its recommendations just yet. Still, considering all that humans have learned about sugary sodas in recent years, we wouldn’t be surprised if, sometime soon, cola cans come with some extra warnings on the label.
Courtesy Les Visible
Is this sugar rush any different to the sugar rush that the average Christian gets upon entering into a religious building?
Back in the late 60s I remember my first Coca Cola. I visited Huntingdon with the cub scouts. It was used by the American Air Force. It was an enjoyable day out, and of course what was going on in Vietnam was well off my radar as a seven or eight year old. I remember doing that game with the metal ring that goes round a circuit and you have to make sure it doesn’t touch and buzz you “out”. I remember watching the Phantom jets take off.
Buoyed by the hype about the Coca Cola, I bought my first can. I spat it out on the ground. It was the foulest thing I’d ever drunk. The difference between the hype and the experience is something I’ve never forgot.
i use coca cola as an effective cleanser of e-cigarette coils, one can only wonder what these sodas make with your gut flora and immune system…water is the best drink for humans and if i want some flavoured sprinkled water, i just make my own soda – add bicarbonate of soda and lemon juice to water and it has even very good digestive effect
To be fair.
The same happens with Wines, Beers & spirits.
Folk can’t stop drinking those either. It’s not just the kids.
Its the high fructose corn syrup the Jews put in the sodas that are responsible for these health issues…There’s nothing wrong with soda if you buy the ones produced with ‘cane sugar’. Just read the ingredient label…
About 40 years ago I was drinking nutra-sweet pop almost daily. Then I started noticing problems with my gut and unnatural urges to pee constantly. So I quite drinking pop right then and there, my health improved and haven’t touched any soda drinks since.
Then I guess a lot of the readers who come to this website must drink A LOTTTTTTTTT of soda (except me of course). Like sleepwalking into “Idiotocracy”.
@ Satanic Stan……..Is this sugar rush any different to the sugar rush that the average Faggot get when they push their stinking unwashed Dick where it should go??…After all a useless cnt like YOU would know from experience GO BACK TO HELL you SATANIC waste of AIR!!
Revised text: “Its the high fructose corn syrup & artificial sweeteners like aspartame etc., the Jews put in the sodas….”
Huh?!? I don’t get it. That “soda” is toxic has been known for decades. Even as kids growing up, a long time ago, my mom used to restrict my brothers’ and my pop consumption. Even back then many were aware that it was just carbonized water with too much sugar, and borderline poisonous.
There are far more common though deadly ingredients in foods that should be covered here, that many are not aware of: corn syrup or corn starch in countless foods, canola oil, aspartame, sodium nitrite, artificial colouring, etc
Humans making rats consume soda pop is pretty stupid.
@ dwight .. Wow, dude, that’s a bit of an overreaction to Stan’s comment, especially considering he wasn’t necessarily wrong. 🙂
I’m on-board with Mike D’s comment, who nails it, as he so often does.
I haven’t had a “coke” in about 25 years. I drink maybe 1 root beer and a ginger ale per year. A lot of non-flouridated spring water for me, and I still have darn near close to washboard abs in my 50s while all-too-many people are fat slobs. I do like a couple good beers here and there and won’t stop that until I’m stone cold in a grave.
Sugar is the least of our problems.
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