Eating Fruits Helps Human To Develop Larger And Powerful Brain, Scientists Says
Scientists said that daily consumption of fruits provides energy, which can help humans to develop a larger and powerful brain.
On Monday (March 27, 2017), the scientists argued that eating fruits were more profitable for the brain rather than leafy vegetables. They said that fruits can provide the energy necessary to grow bigger and bulkier brains.
Alex Decasien, the author study and a researcher at New York University said that people have already blown up the quality of the food they were eating every day.
The assumed diet of the animals hasn’t changed much over the recent evolution, according to the study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, which looked at the staple foods of more than 140 species of animals.
Animals who mostly consume fruits have 25 percent bigger brains compared to those who were filling their stomachs primarily with leaves, according to some research. The result of the study reminds the theory in the mid-90s, saying that larger brains can be developed by being in a social group and need to survive.
Decasien found no link correlating the mid-90s theory to the size of the brain. He said that eating fruits is what strongly correlate with brain size. He also explained that daily consumption of fruit was adding fuel, which is required to grow a more powerful brain but it needs more fuel to keep its functions.
He also said that brain is weighing 2 percent of the total body weight, but it consumes almost 25 percent of our energy. He also described the brain as a crazy expensive organ, so we need to take care of it.
“I feel confident that their study will refocus and reinvigorate research seeking to explain cognitive complexity in primates and other mammals,” said by Chris Venditti, a researcher at the University of Reading in Britain in a comment on the study, also published in Nature Ecology & Evolution quoted by ABS-CBN.
