Common Myth #1: Sugar-free foods are the healthier choice
While it is tempting to dash to the sugar-free food aisle to make ourselves feel better about what we eat, products often contain sugar disguised by another name. Many of the guilt-free alternatives, like the much touted agave nectar, are delivery systems for massive amounts of fructose, which is primarily handled by the liver; high levels of fructose stress the liver and when it is overworked, it converts excess fructose to fat. This could lead to fatty liver disease, and other metabolic disorders including obesity and diabetes. What’s worse, these so called healthier options actually have more fructose than the everyday sugar we were trying to avoid in the first place.
Common Myth #2: Multitasking is possible …show more content…
But it turns out that no one is good at it. What we call multitasking is just rapidly jumping from one task to another. The more tasks we engage in, the less attention we devote to them, making each task blurry, pixelated and plain messy. So why do we take pleasure in multitasking? It’s because our brains reward distraction with a burst of
While it is tempting to dash to the sugar-free food aisle to make ourselves feel better about what we eat, products often contain sugar disguised by another name. Many of the guilt-free alternatives, like the much touted agave nectar, are delivery systems for massive amounts of fructose, which is primarily handled by the liver; high levels of fructose stress the liver and when it is overworked, it converts excess fructose to fat. This could lead to fatty liver disease, and other metabolic disorders including obesity and diabetes. What’s worse, these so called healthier options actually have more fructose than the everyday sugar we were trying to avoid in the first place.
Common Myth #2: Multitasking is possible …show more content…
But it turns out that no one is good at it. What we call multitasking is just rapidly jumping from one task to another. The more tasks we engage in, the less attention we devote to them, making each task blurry, pixelated and plain messy. So why do we take pleasure in multitasking? It’s because our brains reward distraction with a burst of