Sugar Might Make You Stupid

Oh good, if it wasn't bad enough that sugar is making everyone fat, now some scientists at UCLA have concluded it is also quite possibly responsible for stupidity. Yes, a recent study of rats on a high-fructose diet showed that "their brain cells had trouble signaling each other, disrupting the rats' ability to think clearly and recall the route they'd learned six weeks earlier." [Medical XPress via Gawker]