Daily Archives: July 24, 2023

Cultural and individual factors influence sleep quantity and quality

Sleep has a huge impact on health, well-being and productivity, but how long and how well people sleep these days has not been accurately reported. Previous research on how much and how well we sleep has mostly relied on self-reports or was confined within the data from the unnatural environments of the sleep laboratories. So,…

Overconsumption of foods high in fat and sugar linked to worse performance on memory tasks

A new study has found that individuals who report consuming diets high in fat and sugar tend to perform worse on two memory tasks known to heavily engage the hippocampus region of the brain. These participants were both less successful in these tasks and had longer reaction times. The study was published in Physiology &…