Low carb diets: Are they making us stupid?

The answer is apparently, ‘yes’ from the researchers at Tufts University, who studied the popular low and no carb diets like Atkins. They theorized that since the brain feeds on carbs - stored as glucose - then a negative impact could result from severely limiting the carbs in the diet. The brain, you see, doesn’t store glucose, and after a day or two of serious carb cutting, the body’s glucose reserves become exhausted.

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