{"607561":{"#nid":"607561","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Dehydration may muddle your thinking","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDehydration can impair your ability to think clearly, a new study suggests. Researchers found that athletes who lost fluid equal to 2%\u0026nbsp;their weight took a hit to their cognition. Even this mild to moderate level of dehydration - the loss of 2 pounds for someone who weighs 100 pounds and four pounds for someone weighing 200 - led to attention problems and impaired decision making, according to the report in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/acsm-msse\/Abstract\/publishahead\/Dehydration_Impairs_Cognitive_Performance___A.96880.aspx\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMedicine \u0026amp; Science in Sports \u0026amp; Exercise\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; In particular, dehydration led to impairment in tasks requiring attention, motor coordination, and so-called executive function, which includes things like map recognition, grammatical reasoning, mental math, and proofreading, for example. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve known that physical performance suffers at a threshold of 2%\u0026nbsp;of body mass, particularly when it\u0026rsquo;s from exercise in a warm environment,\u0026rdquo; said study coauthor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/mindy-millard-stafford\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMindy Millard-Stafford\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and director of the physiology lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-07-08 14:58:11","changed_gmt":"2018-07-08 14:59:14","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"nutritiiono","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-dehydration-cognition\/dehydration-may-muddle-your-thinking-idUSKBN1JV30M","dateline":{"date":"2018-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"607560":{"id":"607560","type":"image","title":"Mindy Millard-Stafford","body":null,"created":"1531061564","gmt_created":"2018-07-08 14:52:44","changed":"1531061564","gmt_changed":"2018-07-08 14:52:44","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231753","name":"2018 Mindy MillardStafford.sq250.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Mindy%20MillardStafford.sq250.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Mindy%20MillardStafford.sq250.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":61292,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%20Mindy%20MillardStafford.sq250.jpg?itok=0hO3G1cn"}}},"media_ids":["607560"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"178497","name":"dehydration"},{"id":"2014","name":"Cognition"},{"id":"178498","name":"Mindy Millard-Stafford"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}