Artificial intelligence emulates human intelligence, where that familiar saying ‘garbage in – garbage out’ aptly addresses our acquired smarts and health derived from what we eat, or choose not to eat.  Like Browns Mill Elementary School in Lithonia, Georgia chooses not to consume sugary products on campus.  As a result, the school’s sugar-free policy proves to reduce disciplinary-related issues and disturbances by more than 25%, and 30% for negative referrals to counselors. 

Operating a sugar-free educational environment for ten-years has not just improved their students' emotional and behavioral well-being, Browns Mill Elementary has improved in key areas such as, but not limited to, better test scores, lower truancy rates, fewer counselor referrals, and improved student health (decreased average body mass index of students).  In the same way, there was a four year nutritional study beginning in 1980 on the academic performance of 803 New York public schools, called “The Impact of a Diet Low in Food Additives and Sugar”.  This study concluded that children with a diet lower in sugar and artificial additives resulted in a 15.7% increase in the academic percentile rating.

The far-reaching improvements from these nutritional programs comes as no surprise since eating any simple carbohydrate like refined sugar will produce a brain fog.  A fog that is sometimes called the sugar blues, which is when you feel unnecessarily sluggish and find it hard to think clearly.  What causes this is the body’s insulin rushing into the bloodstream to counteract the sugar rush, as excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the brain. 

Glucose is the form of sugar that travels in your bloodstream to fuel the mitochondrial furnaces responsible for your brain power.  Glucose is the only fuel normally used by brain cells and because neurons cannot store glucose, they depend on the bloodstream to deliver a constant supply of this precious fuel.

Sadly, many people find eating sugary products as a rewarding and innocent intake of nourishment, never realizing that it is working to lower the intelligence quotient (IQ).  Sugar is as toxic as cigarette smoking and drinking alcohol that are known to destroy brain cells.  Cigarette smokers have many studies all resulting in how it lowers an IQ, more so than the IQ of non-smokers.  The average IQ for non-smokers is about 101, while it is 94 for those who smoke.

Refined sugar is toxic to the entire body, and we need all the brain power we can get during these unclear socioeconomic times.  So, whenever possible work to reduce and eliminate refined sugar from your diet.  Be ‘Sugar Alert’ and rid yourself from sugar filled product advertisers and manufacturers that lie and intentionally hide the truth about its danger.

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Dean Jones is a marketing strategist with Southland Partnership Corporation and such articles stem from too many enterprises taking advantage of our food and water supply.