Eating a lot of fat makes you stupid and lazy

Now we all know that long-fat, high-fat diets are very harmful to health. So what about in the short term?

A new study in mice found that 10 consecutive days of using a high-fat diet caused a short-term memory decline and made exercise difficult. This finding does not seem surprising. But the real surprise is a high-fat diet that makes people lazy and stupid.

"Western menu often contains a lot of fat and is associated with long-term complications, such as obesity, diabetes, or heart failure. However, the short-term harm of this problem is often less noticeable. , ' Andrew Murray, a member of the research team at the University of Cambridge, said. ' We hope that the findings this time will help people think seriously about reducing the fat content of the formula. eat daily to get immediate benefits for your health, fitness and vivacity. '

The research results are detailed in the FASEB Journal.

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Rodents are thought to be the ideal laboratory for these studies because they have many biological characteristics similar to humans, however, it is still necessary to conduct research directly on humans to make a final conclusion. At the same time, because mice have a much shorter life expectancy, the results as seen in the study are likely to manifest sooner in humans.

Murray and his colleagues surveyed mice fed low-fat (7.5% of calories from fat) and mice that enjoyed a high-fat diet (with 55% of calories coming from fat). After four days, the fat-rich rat's muscles showed less use of oxygen to produce the energy needed for movement, making the heart work harder and increase in size.

After nine days of experimentation, rats eating a lot of fat took a lot of time and made more mistakes in the process of finding their way out of a labyrinth than the rest.

For these mice, the researchers found that their bodies increased a protein called protein unpaired 3. This effectively reduced the use of oxygen to create the energy needed for movement.

'It is clearly a remnant of a high-fat diet,' said Dr. Gerald Weissmann, editor-in-chief of the FASEB Journali. 'A long weekend on hot sausages, fried chicken and pizza can be great for the mouth to crave, but they will definitely make our muscles and brain become dull.'