Because it's delicious, everyone would love the ice cream. No exception to the children. Behind the softness and sweetness, ice cream proven to have some unexpected nutritional facts. Like what?
Eating a glass of ice cream it can make a person more happy and cheerful. The experts found that a spoonful of ice cream you eat as much fun to have efficacy in the brain by winning the lottery or listening to favorite music.
Neurological disease experts at the Institute of Psychiatry London to do some research and brain scanning to several volunteers who ate vanilla ice cream.
The result, they soon found a positive impact on some parts of the brain when the volunteers were enjoying their ice cream.
One of the positive impact is the orbitofrontal cortex, which is part of the brain that analyzes a variety of things and it's located in front of the brain.
This research is a collaboration between Unilever's famous ice cream maker, Walls.
Don Darling, a spokesman for Unilever said, this is the first time our results show that ice cream can make you feel happy. Only with a spoon can stimulate different areas of the brain to make you more cheerful and optimistic face problems. "
The scientists used the machine to the creators of functional magnetic resonance images to monitor the course of the circulation of blood to various parts of the brain are active when someone is enjoying ice cream.
Currently experts are discussing how to have a magnetic resonance machine that can distinguish different situation faced by a person's brain as if the person is feeling sad, upset or lonely.
So if you're feeling "down", try to enjoy your ice cream so that the spirit comes back and let the negative feelings that you felt went along with the ice cream melting in your mouth.
Besides having a variety of side benefits to health, Ice cream has a few myths that ought to be reviewed. What?
Myth: Ice cream causes of obesity.
Fact: Obesity is caused by excessive energy and fat and lack of physical activity due to poor eating habits and hereditary factors.
Meanwhile, the contribution of energy and fat in ice cream per serving is very small, which is about 10 percent of the total energy requirement per day and 15 percent of the total requirement of fat per day.
Myth: Ice cream causes cough and cold.
Fact: The ice cream melts faster when entered into the oral cavity due to the influence of body temperature, so when the ice cream ice cream into the esophagus, the water temperature is not as cold as ice. The cause of cough and cold is especially viruses and allergens in children who have congenital allergic properties
Myth: Ice cream causes cavities.
Fact: Dental cavities due to fermentation of residual carbohydrates and sugar is left on the teeth. It is advisable to drink water, rinse, or brushing your teeth after eating sweet foods like ice cream.
Myth: Eating ice cream too fast makes headache.
Fact: There is a theory that because the ice cream headache (or more commonly called a brain freeze) due to rapid cooling in the frontal sinuses, which lead to local pain nerves. Another theory says, the cause is a narrowing of blood vessels in the ceiling and the back of the mouth causing active nerve pain and pain spreading to the head.
In the back of the mouth there is a nerve center called the sphenopalatine ganglion, and very likely was the cause of brain freeze.
