Sugary meals aren't worth it

They gave teenage boys different types of breakfast meals. One included protein-rich eggs, while another meal included high-fiber, steel-cut oats. A third meal of instant oatmeal was highest on the glycemic index....

"After the highly refined instant oatmeal, blood sugar soared but then crashed a few hours later," Ludwig says. "And when that happened the [stress] hormone adrenaline, or epinephrine, surged to very high levels."

So: eating a bunch of sugar makes you crash. we all know that.

But now it's known that it comes with a surge of adrenalin- the panic hormone.

Food-Mood Connection: How You Eat Can Amp Up Or Tamp Down Stress, from the Salt, NPR