Researchers have found eating less could help you remember more and skipping dessert and having an after-dinner coffee instead could also be good for your brain as well as the waistline, the Daily Mail reported.
The news comes from an Italian study into 'calorific restriction' - the idea that near-starvation rations boost health and extend life.
Scientists have long known of the phenomenon, but struggled to work out just what it is about severely cutting calories that improves health.
For the study, it was decided to focus on a protein called CREB1 that is known to be important to memory and learning. While conducting experiments on mice, researcher Giovambattista Pani showed that cutting calories boosted learning if the animals could still make CREB1. Besides, he also showed that cutting calories boosts the amount of the protein made in the brain.
It was also found the animals' calorie count was only cut by 25 to 30 percent but in human terms, this equates to about 600 calories a day.
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@The Only Normal Person Here.: unfortunately most of these study take place in cold countries which do not take in to account climate of indian sub continent.
Well Mohammad it takes will power. But in my case the motivation was helped by the fact that my high blood pressure meant an early death.
Now THAT is motivation.......hahaha
now.. i agree with you but how to eat less?
Cutting calories boosts learning, that is pretty fine but how does coffee affects your brain medically, that is not mentioned in the article.
Coffee is not suitable for weather like in Pakistan.
I was overweight and had high blood pressure. Faced with popping pills for the rest of my life I started to wonder why most Thais were skinny. They always seemed to be eating. Then I worked it out. While I would have three meals a day they would snack 6 or 7 times a day. Not a meal, a snack.
So I threw the pills away, ate snacks instead of big meals and dropped from 101kgs to 65kgs in a couple of months. I hadn't weighted that since I was 18 - I'm 63 now. I have maintained that weight now for about three years. Once you get over the craving for a large steak or whatever it's easy. Yes I still have that steak from time to time but now it's a treat and not an every day thing.
with or without sugar?