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Your diet isn't just making you obese, it could be speeding up cognitive decline
2021-11-13
[Market Watch] Well, it turns out our toxic modern diet of saturated fats, refined carbs, salt and chemicals may be speeding up our cognitive decline in our senior years, and could even bring on dementia.
I've read this article like, four times, and still don't get it...
The good news? It will only affect those it hasn’t already killed through things like obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

The cheering news on processed foods and the brain has been confirmed by one of those heartless tests on a bunch of blameless rats in a lab in Ohio. Some aging rats were fed a healthy diet, some a diet of processed foods. After a month — things happen quickly in rat biology — they were put through some memory tests involving ringing bells and electric shocks through the feet. Then they were, er, euthanized and their brains dissected.

It’s not much fun being a lab rat.

"Consumption of a PD [ie processed foods diet], enriched with refined carbohydrate sources, for 28 days impaired hippocampal- and amygdalar-dependent memory function," the researchers found. "These memory deficits were accompanied by increased expression of inflammatory genes... in the hippocampus and amygdala of aged rats."
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  Perry White: "We need an anti-fast food lab rat story. Now."

Jimmy Olsen: "On it, Chief."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2021-11-13 20:41  

#8  
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-11-13 14:48  

#7  Just watch as grocery and food prices increase and Big Box Food automates and packages itself as the only way to feed your family regularly, affordably.

No social interaction of dining out, no process stimulation of cooking in, just people sitting on their butts waiting for the next serving of 30 Day Fiancee level nutrition and enjoyment.

"Family not getting enough to eat....come to Taco Bell where you can get full at half the price of just a pack of taco shells."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-11-13 14:47  

#6  What's that?

(exactly what I thought ed)
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-11-13 14:07  

#5  Huh?
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-11-13 13:55  

#4  There is, its called the local fajita restaurant, or local BBQ joint, local pub food, local pizza.

Good thing they got hobbled so people could sit around their house for a year and a half eating Big Burger and Sacks of Fried Corn, getting lethargic.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-11-13 13:33  

#3  Better news - sort of - if 500,000 are dying every year from processed food, that exceeds the toll of covid-19.

If only they had a vaccine for junk food!
Posted by: Bobby   2021-11-13 10:29  

#2  Note however the rats lived. Those in a control group denied any food were dead within a week.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-11-13 06:58  

#1  one of those heartless tests on a bunch of blameless rats in a lab in Ohio

No rat is blameless. Not even an OH rat.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-13 06:51  

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