A dangerous friendship of Sugar and Human Brain

Did you ever wonder why people love sweets so much and why they cannot stop eating the tempting treats once they get their hands on some? Well, it all started with our ancestors and chemicals in our brains.

According to an article published by Live Science, the human brain is actually hardwired to crave sugary foods. Ancient people were scavengers, and glucose-rich food served as a good source of energy. However, to help mankind survive, our brains evolved. See, back then things that tasted bad were dangerous as they might have been poisonous, and our ancestors did not have any other way to determine whether the food they were about to eat was dangerous or not. So, our brain started to flagged sweet things as good food, leading us to want more once we eat them.

When we eat sweet foods, the brain's reward system – called the mesolimbic dopamine system – activates. Dopamine is a brain chemical released by neurons and can signal that an event was positive. Hence, if you decide just to have a taste of the cheesecake you were offered, it is highly likely to you will end up wanting more than just a bite.

However, sugar not only negatively affects our brain but our bodies as well. Research shows that rats on high-sugar diets were less able to remember whether they had previously seen objects in specific locations. Sugar also increases the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, and studies have linked it to accelerated aging.


Next time you crave your favorite dessert, keep in mind: it is actually your brain craving it, not your stomach!

Happy X'mas 
2019

Source :http://theconversation.com/your-brain-on-sugar-what-the-science-actually-says-126581

Things to thoughts for 2020

Kathakali

1. Never resign before getting an offer.

2. Never disclose offer till the last day.

3. Leave the company on good notes.

4. Don't ask more than your capabilities.

5. Get your basics right, before allying with new technologies.

6. Smell the intention of your manager and identify whether he is giving you false or genuine commitments.

7. Give your 100% to the organization and expect the same in return.

8. Love your job and not the company, coz you never know when the company will stop loving you.

9. Learn to manage work-life balance. Always give priority to your happiness.

10. Take opportunities to travel and meet new people. 

Have your own Vision and Values and Career plan.

Eyes in Swiss Cheese

One of the most noticeable features of Swiss cheese is these famous “eyes”. For over a century, people believed that bacterial growth creates gases that make holes in the cheese. Except that’s not quite true.

During the milking process, tiny hay particles stick to buckets and stay in the milk. By controlling the number of hay particles in milk used to make cheese, the scientists could control the size and number of holes that appeared. The specks of hay cause weakness in the curd structure and act as a nucleation site for the carbon dioxide bubbles produced by the bacteria in the cheese to form. The rind is tough enough that it traps the air bubbles inside the cheese and creates eyes. The traditional milk bucket being replaced with modern technology explains the “cheese blindness epidemic”.

This is a bigger deal than you think because the US Department of Agriculture has a grading system for Swiss cheeses (defined as “cheese made by the Swiss process or by any other procedure which produces a finished cheese having the same physical and chemical properties as cheese produced by the Swiss process”, not cheese from Switzerland) based on the size of the holes. Grade A requires cheese to have “uniformly distributed well-developed round or slightly oval-shaped eyes" between 6/16 to 13/16 of an inch (1 to 1.7 cm). This rule only applies to Swiss-style cheese sold in the U.S. 

Source : https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/number-and-size-of-swiss-cheese-holes-can-be-programmed/