Food and emotions, as we know, are closely interrelated. Anyone who is nervous or upset, happy to eat dessert. Those who eat lots of fat and sweet, becomes sluggish. And the one who eats regularly and properly, feels good and is always in a good mood.
The biggest problem in the diet of children and adolescents is excessive consumption of sugar. Because of this fruits and vegetables they eat less and thus, respectively, on this background, along with excess weight appear and mental problems. Constant sweet snack in the form of dairy slices, chocolate bars and muesli make children anxious and reduce their storage capacity, writes portal smak.ua.
Brain for glucose is needed, and it uses approximately 20% of the sugar contained in the blood is only 2% of body weight. Sugar molecules must continually be eliminated from the body, if it is not consumed in the course of muscles and other organs.
Stress hormones such as cortisol and noradrenaline, inhibit mental activity. As a rule, the level of stress hormone is at the highest level in the morning. If breakfast even add chocolate balls, cereal, muffin with jam or bread with peanut butter, blood sugar levels rise sharply.
As if on purpose, during lessons at school, in which students actively in all work, their ability to think is reduced. The more sugar the children eat in the morning, the more stress hormones spills and the less is their ability to concentrate.
