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Friday, August 14, 2009

Junk food dummies: How bingeing on burgers and chips can drain your brainpower





Shruthi Haasan

Junk food dummies: How bingeing on burgers and chips can drain your brainpower

Eating too much fast food will make you thicker in more ways than one, according to a study.

As well as expanding the waistline, a high-fat diet of curries, kebabs, burgers and chips can make you less intelligent.

The research was performed by scientists at Oxford University on rats.

A high-fat diet over less than ten days damaged the rodents’ short-term memory and made them less mentally alert, as well as significantly decreasing their ability to exercise.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1206448/Junk-food-dummies-How-bingeing-burgers-chips-drain-brainpower.html#ixzz0OA0tlZKx

source: dailymail

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