Is soda bad for your brain? (And is diet soda worse?)

[Guest Nicole]

Both sugary, diet drinks correlated with accelerated brain aging

Date:

April 20, 2017

Source:

Boston University

Summary:

Excess sugar -- especially the fructose in sugary drinks -- might damage your brain, new research suggests. Researchers found that people who drink sugary beverages frequently are more likely to have poorer memory, smaller overall brain volume, and a significantly smaller hippocampus. A follow-up study found that people who drank diet soda daily were almost three times as likely to develop stroke and dementia when compared to those who did not.

Continue reading