What? This Scientist Said Eating Ice Cream For Breakfast Can Make You 'Smarter'!
There has never been a better excuse to eat ice cream for breakfast.
By John Lim — 25 Nov 2016, 11:20 AM
How does a tub of chocolate ice cream for breakfast sound?
We don't know about you, but it sounds absolutely DELICIOUS.
A Japanese scientist is trying to convince the world to have the sweet dessert for breakfast because it will apparently make us 'smarter'!
According to the Telegraph, Yoshihiko Koga, a professor at Tokyo’s Kyorin University, suggests that eating ice cream for breakfast improves people’s alertness and mental performance.
Koga conducted a series of clinical trials, in which participants were required to eat three scoops of ice cream immediately after waking up, and then had to complete a series of mental exercises on a computer.
He compared the results to the other group who had normal breakfast
According to his research, ice cream boosts people's reaction times and reduces their mental irritation.
He found that the ice cream group were better at processing new information and showed faster reaction times.
Koga also found that ice cream eaters fired off an abundance of high-frequency alpha-waves - brain frequencies connected to enhanced alertness and reduced mental irritation.
Koga then tried the same experiment with cold water to check if the ice cream’s temperature was simply shocking the subjects awake
People who had drunk the cold water did show some level of increased mental performance and alertness, the effect was not as pronounced as with the ice cream.
So what is it about ice cream that makes us 'smarter'?
Koga has yet to discover the direct link between eating ice cream in the morning and how it can give you a brain boost.
He will continue his work with ice cream by trying to narrow down the precise ingredient giving his subjects a morning boost.
For now, this research will work as an ongoing excuse to eat ice cream first thing in the morning. And that is something we are more than happy to oblige.
BRB, buying some ice cream from the nearest 7-11.