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    Study: Too much candy can damage brain

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And -- -- twenty minutes past the hour we've got some news for you for coffee drinkers red wine drinkers and people who like sugar.

New studies show that these things may have some surprising help benefits but -- here.

It just -- are gonna start -- that apparently maybe it's a travel there's a new study it says doctor -- server can make you stupid is that all we're hearing about this.

Do we -- this is high fructose corn syrup that we haven't a lot of our beverages and are preparing foods and what they do is.

They took at UCL -- they took rats and they.

Taught them -- -- and then they fed in this high fructose corn syrup and you know what six weeks later they didn't remember the maize and lest they gave them facial oil they give them fish oil.

They suddenly remembered the measures now what's the take home message -- well we're talking -- number one so I don't know what's gonna work in humans.

But I want you out there to know.

That sugar is really important for the brain that's how the brain works but if -- give the wrong kind of sugar.

It signals insulin the wrong way and you may get foggy and lose your memory so I think there's something here but we got to test this in human.

A little more research OK why has the same advantages as -- hurt world one of the advantages we're always trying to light one he had.

Haven't we all like a glass of wine at night we're always trying to prove it well.

Wine has something in the call poly funerals which are anti oxidant and dioxins and they're finding out that that actually helps digestion.

In this study they showed that in not only -- suggestion that lower blood pressure lower cholesterol so if you're drinking a glass of wine there may be some real benefits here and I actually believe that.

It increased the good bacteria in the stomach -- -- and what -- here's here's.

Caveat here though.

A glass of wine we're not talking about the bottle of wine -- talk about the possible because the big difference is.

Exactly -- the alcohol itself is bad for your stomach so the public feels that may be good for your stomach the -- -- it was like an out being a threat.

Okay finally copy is it good for you.

You know I think -- headline here is in this is a study in The New England Journal of Medicine from.

The NIH and it looked at 400000.

People over ten years to decide pretty significant -- a huge amount of people and it found.

That they lived a little bit longer if they were coffee drinkers -- tell you why that's important we always think coffee's bad for you right you know that it raises -- -- yeah raises cholesterol it's bad for you.

But we're starting to find out -- more and more studies that has benefits.

It may decrease your risk of certain kinds of cancer.

It -- it may have anti oxidant properties as well and now we're finding that a huge group.

Actually all of the little longer -- that's not prove that coffee will make you live longer but if you're a coffee -- the way I am the way you are yeah.

They -- we -- -- little little little long.

I did about what we don't go on these obstacle course -- double healthy I guess of getting coffee and second drinking coffee and have an option.

Well that's bad -- reason it was good for your great good yarder that -- sugar and cream in this coffee just testing him.

Not that I didn't see you great to -- if you -- only obstacle course I'm gonna help.