Soda Damages Your Brain

Soda Damages Your Brain

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 558 , Segment 3

Episode: White House Investigation, Brain on Soda, Secret to a Long Life

  • May 22, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 15:26 mins

Guest: Matthew Pase, PhD, Visiting Research fellow in Neurology, School of Medicine, Boston University, Senior Research Fellow at Swinburne University, Australia  Soda is bad for your bodyweight and your heart, and we’re all pretty aware of that, which is why many of us drink the diet versions, instead. But now comes evidence from the Boston University School of Medicine that soda is bad for our brains, too. Even diet soda is correlated with increased risk of stroke and dementia.

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FlowLight Improves Productivity

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Guest: Thomas Fritz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia Cubicle workers everywhere can relate to the frustration of having someone pop in and interrupt when you’re deep into the flow of a project. To avoid that, many people might try block-out techniques like wearing headphones most of the day to send the message, “don’t interrupt, I’m focusing.”   But University of British Columbia computer science professor Thomas Fritz has a different solution. It’s a traffic light, basically. When it’s green, coworkers know you’re okay to interrupt. When it’s red—or the more serious pulsing red—they know to stay away. And you don’t set the light yourself—it actually tracks your computer activity and sets itself based on that.

Guest: Thomas Fritz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia Cubicle workers everywhere can relate to the frustration of having someone pop in and interrupt when you’re deep into the flow of a project. To avoid that, many people might try block-out techniques like wearing headphones most of the day to send the message, “don’t interrupt, I’m focusing.”   But University of British Columbia computer science professor Thomas Fritz has a different solution. It’s a traffic light, basically. When it’s green, coworkers know you’re okay to interrupt. When it’s red—or the more serious pulsing red—they know to stay away. And you don’t set the light yourself—it actually tracks your computer activity and sets itself based on that.