While we're at it... STOP hating on Pop Tarts

Sure, they taste good and all, but now a days I just don't find them all that appealing. And have you seen that ingredients list? I look at that and say, "What the heck am I putting into my body?" Sugar, sugar, sugar. Thanks but no thanks. I'd rather not suffer through the guilt trip. And knowing that the serving size is smaller than what is in a package... that just makes me angry. How am I only supposed to eat one pop tart if the package has two?! Not worth the calories, and it just makes me hungrier. But hey, everyone has their guilty pleasures, pop tarts just aren't my thing.

Four words, since you asked... High Frucose Corn Syrup. Derived from GMO corn. HFC is one of the biggest offenders causing Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome. :indifferent:

Complete nonsense.

Sugar makes you stupid: Study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory
May 15, 2012 in Health

Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid.

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A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning — and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption. The peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology publishes the findings in its May 15 edition.

"Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think," said Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a professor of integrative biology and physiology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science. "Eating a high-fructose diet over the long term alters your brain's ability to learn and remember information. But adding omega-3 fatty acids to your meals can help minimize the damage."

While earlier research has revealed how fructose harms the body through its role in diabetes, obesity and fatty liver, this study is the first to uncover how the sweetener influences the brain.

The UCLA team zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar, that is commonly added to processed foods, including soft drinks, condiments, applesauce and baby food. The average American consumes more than 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

"We're not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants," explained Gomez-Pinilla, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute and Brain Injury Research Center. "We're concerned about high-fructose corn syrup that is added to manufactured food products as a sweetener and preservative."

Gomez-Pinilla and study co-author Rahul Agrawal, a UCLA visiting postdoctoral fellow from India, studied two groups of rats that each consumed a fructose solution as drinking water for six weeks. The second group also received omega-3 fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which protects against damage to the synapses — the chemical connections between brain cells that enable memory and learning.

So I got the peanut butter poptarts today.

Gross. They were dissappointingly gross. Bummer.

dissapointed

Saves me getting someone from the US to send em to me though.

Pop tarts and PB sandwich is pre-workout food of champions. I believe there are pubmed studies proving this...somewhere.

Dont like them, they are boke inducing

I'd rather go to a bakery and get my calories worth

If im going to go into a diabetic coma, i'll do it with something that I enjoy the taste of.