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Yessi Pratiwi — June 12, 2009 / 12:21 am
As you know that junk food is not good for our health, can we just avoid it all the time? You know, the temptation is so strong when the people surround you eat junk food, or when your family have to order junk foods where you all are trapped in home, while it is raining outside and you all feel so hungry for food :-p
But recently, a more surprising news came up upon a research done by Dr. Aviv Goldbart of Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba, together with researchers from the University of Louisville in the US. The research found that junk food has as much negative effect on memory as sleep apnea. How this could be?
The experiment took rats as the object. Half of the participating rats were fed a normal diet, and the other half was given junk food. The rats had to recognize colorful signs over a clear plastic platform that would serve as “dry land” in a water-filled aquarium. The ones that were fed a high-fat, highly-refined diet took twice as long to find the platform than those fed a conventional rodent diet. They took a long time to learn where the platform signs were, and the learning process was very slow.
Dr. Aviv concluded, in rats that were fed a high fat diet, the amount of certain brain protein connected to memory declines. This supports the theory that eating fatty, processed food hurts memory. Wow! Such a surprising report, ya?
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