SCIENCE: ICE CREAM FOR BREAKFAST MAKES YOU SMARTER

(November, 2016) A Japanese scientist has discovered that eating ice cream for breakfast improves a person’s alertness and mental performance. Yoshihiko Koga, a professor at Tokyo’s Kyorin University, carried out a series of clinical trials in which test subjects were required to eat ice cream immediately after waking up. They were then put through a series of mental exercises on a computer. Compared to a group that had not eaten ice cream, Professor Koga’s subjects exhibited faster reaction times and better information processing capabilities. Monitoring of the subjects’ brain activity revealed an increase in high-frequency alpha waves, which are linked to elevated levels of alertness and reduced mental irritation. To examine the possibility that the test subjects’ reactions were simply the result of the brain being shocked into higher levels of alertness by the low temperature of the ice cream, Professor Koga repeated the experiment with cold water instead of ice cream. Test subjects who drank cold water did display a degree of increased alertness and mental capacity, although the levels were markedly lower than among subjects who started the day with ice cream.
* Also, everybody who had ice cream for breakfast maintained good humor for the rest of the day.
* So you need a morning brain freeze to get past the morning brain freeze?
* Could it possibly be that their brains were shocked into higher levels of alertness by the 12 grams of sugar?
* The study published a list of names of the test subjects: there was Ben, Jerry, Edy, Baskin, Robbins…
* Sometimes you volunteer for a study and get shocked with electricity. Sometimes you get ice cream.
* The subjects were put through mental exercises on a computer? Wow, science methodology doesn’t get much stronger than that.
* Maybe they just tried harder on the tests because they thought they’d get more ice cream.
* In a related study: Eating ice cream when you wake up makes you kind of fat.