Japanese scientist Yoshihiko Koga, eating ice cream for breakfast, increased mental performance, he said.
Koga Psychophysiology Specialist at Kyorin University in Tokyo, Koga woke up some of the subjects in the morning to eat ice cream. Then, the group that he ate ice cream and didn’t have them do mind exercises on computers. According to the results published on the website Excite News, ice cream eaters reacted faster than others about the solution. On the possibility that the subjects may have increased their attention due to the coldness of the ice cream, the same tests were performed by giving the subjects cold water this time. He found that water drinkers’ performance was lower than that of ice-creamers.
In 2005, a group of neurologists from the London Institute of Psychiatry scanned the brains of subjects eating vanilla ice cream and found that ice cream activates ‘points of pleasure indeki in the brain. These points in the brain, people who win bonuses or people who listen to the song is known to be activated. Koga’s research continues. One final note; Nutritionists are skeptical about the research.
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