Re: Is sugar sometimes a GOOD thing to eat?

[Guest guest]

Sounds like your using the term "sugar" in a carbo sense rather than just sucrose. But yes, my evening meal (6-7pm) is a cup of milk, 1/2 cup of fiber one, 1/2 cup of rice. sometimes I subst lowfat yogurt for the milk. It's probably an insulin issue more than anything to others. Sometimes I do baked corn chips and avocado. Right now controlling my weight and blood pressure are the main issues. I need sugar to burn fat.

Regards.

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From: Francesca Skelton

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Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:49 PM

Subject: [ ] Is sugar sometimes a GOOD thing to eat?

As mentioned before I'm reading "Managing your Mind and Mood through Food",by famed nutritionist Judith Wurtman. Surprisingly she highly recommendssome sugary foods, for seratonin production to help with mood and sleep.Her recommended bedtime snacks are any listed below:1. Blueberry or corn toastee2. 1 and 1/2 cups of any breakfast cereal without milk (not too bad)3. 1 1/2 ounces caramel coated popcorn4. 8 social Tea biscuits or 3 fig bars or 6 ginger snaps5. a cinamon-raisin English muffin6. pkg of cinnamon and spice instant oatmeal without milk7. toaster size frozen waffle w/1 tbs maple syrupof course almost all (if not all) are CRONIE "forbidden foods". So forthose with either mood disorders or sleep disorders, is sugar sometimeswarrented ?

[Guest guest]

Actually she has an appendix in the back of book with sugar loaded (sucrose

that is) seratonin releasing snacks which is too lengthy to list here. But

included are candy bars, sugar laden cereals, and cookies and crackers. If

you'll noticeon the short list of snacks I posted were things like cookies,

fig bars, ginger snaps, caramel on the popcorn, and maple syrup - all empty

calories, but apparently " feel good " foods and seratonin releasing. She

also lists some " starchy " snacks (example; bagels) , and about the only two

things in the rather lengthy appendix that might be Ok from a health food

point of view are plain oatmeal and plain popcorn.

on 11/4/2002 5:09 PM, jwwright at jwwright@... wrote:

> Sounds like your using the term " sugar " in a carbo sense rather than just

> sucrose.

[Guest guest]

Hi All, In response to the below see the attached. Cheers, Al.

From: Francesca Skelton <fskelton@e...>

Date: Mon Nov 4, 2002 8:49 pm

Subject: Is sugar sometimes a GOOD thing to eat?

As mentioned before I'm reading " Managing your Mind and Mood through Food " ,

by famed nutritionist Judith Wurtman. Surprisingly she highly recommends

some sugary foods, for seratonin production to help with mood and sleep.

Her recommended bedtime snacks are any listed below:

1. Blueberry or corn toastee

2. 1 and 1/2 cups of any breakfast cereal without milk (not too bad)

3. 1 1/2 ounces caramel coated popcorn

4. 8 social Tea biscuits or 3 fig bars or 6 ginger snaps

5. a cinamon-raisin English muffin

6. pkg of cinnamon and spice instant oatmeal without milk

7. toaster size frozen waffle w/1 tbs maple syrup

Alan Pater, Ph.D.; Faculty of Medicine; Memorial University; St. 's, NL

A1B 3V6 Canada; Tel. No.: (709) 777-6488; Fax No.: (709) 777-7010; email:

apater@...

Physiology & Behavior, 77, November 2002, 333-340

The effects of a confectionery snack on attention in young boys

Caroline R. Busch, Holly A. , Robin B. Kanarek and J. Holcomb

Abstract

The relationship between consumption of a confectionery snack after an

overnight fast and cognitive function was examined using a variety of

cognitive tasks, including spatial memory, verbal memory, attention, visual

perception and short-term memory, in a sample of 21 boys, ages 9–12 years.

Performance on the vigilance attention task was significantly improved when

the participants consumed a confectionery snack compared to consumption of

a noncalorie snack. Participants had significantly higher hit rates and

significantly lower miss rates after the confectionery snack. In addition,

false alarm rates increased as a function of time for the placebo condition

and decreased for the confectionery condition. Thus, the confectionery

snack enhanced ability to stay on task for an extended period of time,

enabling the children to more accurately identify target information, as

well as correctly reject nontarget information. Analysis of the types of

errors made also revealed that when the children were in the confectionery

condition they were less likely to make more glaring errors. No significant

differences were found in tests of digit span, verbal memory, spatial

memory or visual perception.

Author Keywords: Carbohydrate; Cognition; Attention; Children; Snacks