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Obesity can break down our protective blood brain barrier resulting in problems with learning and memory, scientists report.
[...] People who have obesity and diabetes have higher rates of cognitive impairment as they age and most of the related structural changes are in the hippocampus, a center of learning and memory and Stranahan's focus of study. Fat is a source of inflammation and there is evidence that reducing chronic inflammation in the brain helps prevent obesity-related memory loss.
In a model that mimics what happens to some of us, young mice fed a high-fat diet got fat within two weeks, and by 16 weeks they had increases in fasting glucose and insulin concentrations, all signs that diabetes is in their future.
Source: New insight into how obesity, insulin resistance can impair cognition
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @04:39AM (1 child)
Obesity and high-fat diets are not heavily correlated. High carb diets can easily get one fat also. Thus, they may be confusing two issues by doing this: high fat diet versus obesity alone.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @06:44PM
these idiots always say "high fat diet" but what they mean is "high fat along with too much carbs and sugar" which is totally different from "high fat and very low carbs and sugar". i don't know if they're just lazy or paid off by Big Food to shill low fat, high carb, chemical laden, estrogen mimicking, cancer causing, pig slop allowed to be sold as food by the whores at the FDA.