New study: Sugar levels may affect couples’ mood

Study involves 107 married couples, measured anger in a unique way validated in previous studies.


APP April 16, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Lower levels of blood sugar may make married people angrier and more aggressive against their spouses, according to a new US study.  It further revealed how hunger caused by low levels of blood glucose may play a role in marital arguments, confrontations, and possibly even some domestic violence, said Brad Bushman, lead author and professor of communication and psychology at the Ohio State University, Xinhua reported. The aggressive behavior has a slang term: ‘hungry’ (hungry + angry). “People can relate to this idea that when they get hungry, they get cranky,” Bushman said. The study, published in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, involved 107 married couples and measured anger in a unique way validated in previous studies.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 16th, 2014.

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