A low-carbon breakfast makes people more patient.

Original title: Low-carbon breakfast makes people more patient
low-carbon breakfast not only affects your health, but may also make you a more endurance person. Those who ate less carbs for breakfast made more tolerant decisions in a money-sharing game a few hours later.
" extreme (low-carbon) diet may affect people's behavior. Soyoung Park of the University of Luebeck in Germany said. This may be because a diet with less starch contains more protein, which increases dopamine levels in the brain that are involved in decision-making.
standard advice is that people's food should revolve around starchy carbohydrates such as bread, potatoes and pasta. Low-carbon diets have a high protein intake because they replace these foods with protein-rich meats, dairy products and nuts.
protein in the diet affects levels of amino acids, the leading substance for dopamine in the blood. Since increasing amino acids increases dopamine, which influences decision-making, Park wants to know if low carbon can change people's behavior. To do this, she and the team asked volunteers to participate in the "ultimate game" - they were divided into two groups and given some money to one of them to decide how much to share with their partner. If the participants accept the offer, both will receive cash;
although in theory people tend to accept this offer because even a small amount of money is better than nothing, in practice people often reject lower pay. Park says there seems to be a strong desire to punish those who distribute money unfairly, even though they suffer only minimal losses. This may reflect a desire to stop antisesociety behaviour. "It's trying to punish cheaters and promote a good social climate."
, the Park team asked 87 volunteers what they had for breakfast and then asked them to participate in the game. Those who ate less carbohydrate were more likely to receive unfair pay, with 76 percent and 47 percent, respectively, compared with those who ate higher carbohydrates.
, they had 24 people eat a prep breakfast before the game. Volunteers either ate a high-carbon breakfast with bread, jam and juice, or a low-carbon breakfast with ham, cheese and milk, and then swapped diets the next day. The team found that volunteers became more tolerant after eating a low-carbon diet, with 40 percent receiving unfair treatment and 31 percent receiving a high-carbon breakfast.
dopamine may have this effect because it is involved in the signaling process of the reward mechanism that people experience. Park speculates that people who might get higher levels of dopamine from breakfast will think their partner is getting less money and therefore think lower money is acceptable. (Feng Weiwei )