Eating candy helps reduce stress

Taking some sweet candies while stressing will help reduce stress effectively.

A research team at the University of Cincinnati, USA, found that mice fed sweets had lower levels of stress hormones (glucocorticoids). But research also found that animals who like sweets often gain weight.

Researchers gave adult male rats an amount of artificial sugar or sugar or plain water twice a day. After 2 weeks the animals face physical and psychological stress situations.

Animals who drink sugar have lower glucocorticoid content than those who drink water. Those who drank artificial sugar only had a slight decrease in glucocorticoid content.

Yvonne Ulrich-Lai, the lead psychologist, said: " Glucocorticoid helps each person survive and recover from stress, but it is also related to obesity and reduced immune function when created with the content. big ".

The results can help reduce stress in people, from physical reasons such as illness, injury, or psychological causes such as having to talk in front of a crowd, facing the death of a loved one.

Dr. Ulrich-Lai said: " We really found sweet candies, not artificial sweets, really effective treatments for two types of physical and psychological stress ."

Amanda Johnson, a nutritionist at the British Dietetic Association, said: " It is important to remember that there are many factors related to stress, and the simple consumption of sweets is unlikely to reduce stress in humans. excessive consumption of sweets also leads to excess energy . "

MT ( according to BBC )