Evidence for a second meal cognitive effect: Glycaemic responses to high and low glycaemic index evening meals are associated with cognition the following morning

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 66-71

  Lamport, Daniel Joseph ^a   Hoyle, Emily ^a   Lawton, Clare L ^a   Mansfield, Michael W ^b   Dye, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive performance; Glucose; Glycaemic index; Glycaemic response; Memory; Second meal cognitive effect

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTAKE; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BLOOD GLUCOSE; COGNITION; DIET; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FIBER; FASTING; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957942400     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830511Y.0000000002     Document Type: Article

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