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Eating a less "healthy" breakfast cereal could improve your memory, new Australian research suggests.
A study has found that high-GI cereals, which are generally heavier in carbohydrate and sugar, help young people remember words better in the short term.
The findings, presented to a world brain conference in Melbourne, may support pre-exam bingeing on glucose-rich foods, but the researchers caution that eating unhealthy foods is not a sustainable tool for memory.
PhD student Michael Smith, from the University of Western Australia, compared the effect of low- and high-GI cereals on the ability of healthy teenagers to remember a list of words.
"Those who ate the high-GI cereal recalled a lot more words than those in the other group," he said.
- AAP
