Sugar Appears To Reduce Cortisol Levels.

Well” blog reports that sugar appears to reduce “levels of cortisol, the stress hormone,” according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The study involved 19 women, eight of whom drank aspartame-sweetened beverages for 12 days, while the remaining women “drank an identical beverage containing 25 percent sucrose.” Cortisol levels were measured before and after the women underwent fMRI scans while taking difficult arithmetic tests. Following the fMRI scans, researchers found that “cortisol levels were lower in the sugar consumers and higher in the aspartame group.” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/sugar-as-a-stress-reliever/?ref=health&_r=0