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Sugar Might Make You Stupid

high-fructose-corn-syrup-stupid-150.jpgOh 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]