Is it good or harmful to eat ice cream instead of breakfast?

Recently, there is an information spread very quickly on social networks and foreign forums: eating ice cream instead of breakfast is a way to greatly enhance thinking ability and alertness during the day.

Sounds great! The truth is that most of us like to eat ice cream, and if possible, always want to eat whenever possible, as long as it doesn't cause obesity and tooth decay. And indeed if you can replace a normal breakfast with ice cream that brings such good effect . "+1", right?

Most of us like ice cream, right?

However, is it really that way or not?

Some reputable UK websites such as Business Insider appear to be suspicious of this information, and they decided to verify it.

It is known that this information stems from a study from Japan, conducted by Kyorin University. However, the traceability of the study is difficult, if not impossible, to find. Only the Excite site (a Japanese website) has published research, but the original research links are also . missing.

Colorful ice cream balls are very eye-catching.

According to Excite, research shows that there is a scientific basis for this information. More specifically, the school's experiment involves having the candidates eat 3 creams each morning, then do some brain exercises.

After that, this group will be compared to a group that doesn't eat ice cream. As a result, ice cream groups have faster reflexes, earlier completion times, and higher concentration indicators.

In another experiment, they tried to get candidates to drink a glass of cold water to activate the effect, but the cream still had a greater effect.

So, is the effect of having breakfast with ice cream real? Maybe, but the problem is that the group that doesn't eat the ice cream even . doesn't eat breakfast. According to Katie Barfoot, a nutritionist at the University of Reading (UK), this means that the study simply compares the effect of breakfast and not breakfast.

The effect of eating ice cream is just the difference between breakfast and no breakfast.

"The brain needs an amount of glucose to function, and eating a meal with a lot of glucose makes the brain work better."

"But this does not mean we should eat ice cream in the morning. If the study compares breakfast with less sugar and more sugar, it may be more convincing," Barfoot said.

More importantly, sugar is not a healthy food

According to Excite, the study was conducted in collaboration with an anonymous sweets company. For those who do not know, the sugar manufacturing industry has been involved in a science scandal to hide the harmful effects of sugar, and then make mankind today face "pandemic obesity" is outbreaks in many countries around the world.

So, Barfoot and some other food experts concluded that even when research is real, it has too many holes and is not reliable . As for us, maybe we should go back to pho, sticky rice, bread . for breakfast, instead of eating ice cream and soon going to the dentist at the end of the month.