最新研究發現 早餐吃冰淇淋能讓你變聰明!

In a discovery that will give nutritionists the shivers, a Japanese scientist has discovered that consuming ice cream for breakfast improves a person's alertness and mental performance.

一位日本科學家的發現讓營養學家們“不寒而慄”，他稱，早餐攝入冰淇淋可以改善一個人的機敏度和思維表現。

Yoshihiko Koga, a professor at Tokyo's Kyorin University, has carried out a series of clinical trials in which test subjects were required to eat ice cream immediately after waking up. They were then put through a series of mental exercises on a computer.

東京杏林大學一位名叫古賀佳彥的教授進行了一系列臨牀試驗，要求受試者起牀後立即吃冰激凌。接着，他們在電腦上進行了一系列智力練習。

Compared to a group that had not eaten ice cream, the subjects exhibited faster reaction and better information-processing capabilities.

與沒有吃冰激凌的那組相比，吃冰激凌的測試者反應更快，處理信息的能力更強。

There has already been some scientific research into why ice cream may have a positive effect on those who eat it.

一些科學研究已經對吃冰激凌可能產生積極影響的原因進行了探究。

In 2005, neuroscientists at the Institute of Psychiatry in London scanned the brains of test subjects as they ate vanilla ice cream.

2005年，倫敦精神病學研究所的神經科學家們在測試者吃香草冰激凌時掃描了他們的大腦。

The study found that eating ice cream activated the same "pleasure spots" of the brain that are lit up by winning money, or listening to a favourite piece of music.

該研究發現，吃冰激凌激活了大腦的“快樂區域”，這與贏錢或聽喜歡的音樂所激活的區域是一樣的。

"This is the first time that we've been able to show that ice cream makes you happy," Unilever spokesman Don Darling said at the time. "Just one spoonful lights up the happy zones of the brain in clinical trials."

聯合利華的發言人唐·達林當時表示：“這是我們首次能夠證明，冰激凌讓你快樂。在臨牀試驗中，僅僅一勺冰激凌就能激活大腦的快樂區域。”