Remember what you ate yesterday? If not, it may be because your diet is all high-fat foods, such as fast-food crackers, ice cream, and potato chips.
A new Canadian study believes that high-fat foods not only block arteries but also damage the function of the brain - at least in rats in the lab.
One of the study's authors, Senior Scientist at the Baycrest Geriatric Care Center in Toronto and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Gordon Winocur said that the researchers compared rats fed with high-fat diets and used standard low-fat laboratories. The cognitive function of food fed rats. High-fat foods contain 40% fat, similar to those of Americans. The study showed that after 3 months, rats with high-fat foods exhibited extensive impairments in learning and memory. Researchers say that the same thing may also happen in humans.