Fast food 'makes you less intelligent' [Independent.ie]
- Published: 14 August 2009
Fast food can make you less intelligent, according to new research.
A high-fat diet over less than 10 days was found to damage the short-term memory of rats used in the experiment from scientists at Oxford University.
The research team studied rats fed a low fat diet, comprising 7.5 per cent of calories as fat, and compared them with rats fed a high-fat junk food diet, with 55 per cent of calories as fat.
It found that after four days the muscles of the rat on the high-fat diet were less able to use oxygen to make energy needed to exercise, causing an increase in heart size.
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