Eating Loads of Carbs May Cause You to Lose Your Mind !

Your brain is intricately linked to your diet. You know this is true if you've ever found yourself foggy-headed and unable to concentrate because you've gone too long without eating.

Yet, changes in your cognitive abilities as you get older are generally not attributed directly to your food choices, the way some other diseases, like heart disease and type 2 diabetes, often are.

This may soon change, and rightly so, as a growing body of research is highlighting the drastic effect your diet plays in your future brain health, such as significantly raising your risk of cognitive impairment.

So it's not surprising that the featured study found a link between mild cognitive impairment and diets high in sugar and carbs. It's becoming increasingly clear that the same pathological process that leads to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes may also hold true for your brain. As you overindulge on sugar and grains, your brain becomes overwhelmed by the consistently higher levels of insulin and eventually shuts down its insulin signaling and sensitivity, leading to impairments in your thinking and memory abilities, and eventually causing permanent brain damage.

• Those with the highest carbohydrate intake were nearly twice as likely to develop mild cognitive impairment than those with the lowest intake of carbohydrates.
• Those with the highest sugar intake were 1.5 times more likely to experience mild cognitive impairment than those with the lowest levels.
• Those with the highest fat intake were 42 percent less likely to develop cognitive impairment
• Those with the highest protein intake reduced their risk by 21 percent
• When compared with total fat and protein intake, those with the highest carb intake were 3.6 times more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment

Why might this be? Because a diet that's focused on unhealthy carbs and sugar seriously interferes with the ability of insulin to do its job  Researchers noted:

"A dietary pattern with relatively high caloric intake from carbohydrates and low caloric intake from fat and proteins may increase the risk of MCI [mild cognitive impairment] or dementia in elderly persons."

 http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/11/03/too-much-carbs.aspx?e_cid=20121103_DNL_art_2