Junk food trashes your memory

  • high fat/sugar affected rat memory
  • sugar water also affected rat memory in context of healthy diet
  • only took a week to manifest, prior to any weight gain
  • preliminary data suggests this phenomenon is non-reversible
  • hippocampal inflammation detected

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159113005758

18-Dec-2013

A new study has suggested that even a short-term diet of junk food can have a detrimental and damaging effect on the brain’s cognitive ability.