RESEARCH - No-carb diets may impair memory

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No-Carb Diets May Impair Memory

Memory Improved When Carbs Reintroduced to Diet

By Salynn Boyles

WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD

Dec. 12, 2008 - Eliminating carbohydrates from your diet may help you

lose weight, but it could leave you fuzzy headed and forgetful, a new

study suggests.

One week after starting a weight loss diet that severely restricted

carbohydrates, participants in the Tufts University study performed

significantly worse on memory tests than participants who followed a

low calorie, high-carbohydrate diet.

The low-carb dieters' memory-test performances improved in the

following weeks after they began eating some carbohydrates.

" The connection between the foods we eat and how we think doesn't

really enter into most people's minds, " study co-author and cognitive

psychologist Holly A. , PhD tells WebMD. " But this study

demonstrates that the foods we eat can have an immediate impact on

brain function. "

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