THE POWER OF SWEET TO RELIEVE THE PAIN

. BY: JUAN. M. R

All we have to remember those painful and scary moments when we were little kids and went to the doctor to make us medical checkups, and later the doctors gave you a candy to behave very well and also to relieve the pain that you endured? As well, the doctors have been right with their act of giving a sweet to each of the patients after medical appointments, current studies have stated that eating candy during a state of pain allows you to calm down and regulate your emotions.

New experiments suggest that eating sugary foods helps us to be better emotionally, since the sugar contained in these treats provides a calming effect in the body that stabilizes both physical and psychological behaviors. One of these experiments is that of American researchers who discovered that also to the properties of chocolate as the dopamine generates a state of pleasure in individuals; there are also other substances such as sugar that provides in the body a state of relief and tranquility. The study was addressed by the professor of neurology in the University of Chicago Peggy Mason and neurobiology researcher Hayler Foo, who further affirms that these substances that generate a state of relief in the body, firstly generate a neurological stimulation in a part of the brain to activate this type of emotion. 

In addition there are other investigations such as those made by the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who produced a personalized experiment to approve this affirm. The experiment consisted in separated a group of people, for one part to take a sugary soda and the other part didn't take a sugary soda, after this process was ordered all participants to dip their hands in a bucket of cold water. In conclusion, it was proved that the individuals who drank sugary drinks tended to endure longer within the bucket of water, but people who drank sugar-free drinks tended to get their hand out faster.

Therefore, this leads us to conclude that always you go to the doctor to vaccinate or to make a painful examination; carry with you a few sweets to relieve those pains or ask the doctor that isn´t forget of give you candy and not to be suffering later.