Revealing that if you take too much sugar the risk of mental illness increases

It is said that taking oversugar excessively increases the risk of diabetes and cancer, but the risk of psychiatric disorders also increases, as evidenced by UK's research at the University College London (UCL) It was.

Sugar intake from sweet food and beverages, common mental disorder and depression: prospective findings from the Whitehall II study | Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05649-7

High sugar intake linked with poorer long-term mental health
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0717/27072017_sugar_mental

Previous studies have also pointed out the link between sugar overdose and increased risk of mental illness. However, it was not clear whether this was a causal relationship. In other words, you can not eliminate the possibility that intake of sugar increases by suffering from depression, it and take a lot of sugar did not know whether or not cause an increase risk of mental illness.


Dr. Anika KnuPel et al. 'S research team at UCL, for example, conducted a large - scale survey on the relationship between social factors and diseases for British civil servantsWhitehall IITo examine the relationship between sugar and the mental illness risk. The target was a civil servant from London to the age of 33 from 1985 to 1988, with sample sizes of 10,388, male-female ratio 2: 1.

The subjects surveyed were classified into three levels according to the intake of sugar and analyzed. As a result, the top group of men with more than 67 grams of sugar intake per day had a 23% higher risk of suffering from mental illnesses in five years than those in the middle group of less than 39.5 grams a day I understood. On the contrary, when investigating the sugar intake of people with psychiatric disorders, it was said that intake was not high. Based on the above results, it is not that "people who suffer from mental illness consume much sugar", but the possibility of "causing a mental illness by taking more sugar" is strongly inferred, and excessive intake of sugar and mental illness The research team has concluded that it has been found that there is a causal relationship to the increased risk.


However, it was only men that the relationship between excessive intake of sugar and psychiatric disorder could be confirmed, there was no correlation with women. Dr. KnuPer says he does not know about this reason and believes that investigation by a larger population is necessary.

British has ingested about twice the sugar amount desirable to maintain the health, it is introduced from 2018 for the purpose of suppressing intake of sugar, sugar tax on soft drinks, effective UCL researchers believe there is.