Maintaining a diet that is full of high fat and highly processed junk foods that are filled with added sugars, such as the typical Western diet, has been found to impair brain function and lead to overeating in as little as one week.
In a recent study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science after a week of consuming a typical Western style diet healthy young participants scored worse on brain function testing and were encouraged to overeat. The study is one of the first to investigate whether a typical Western junk food diet can impair memory and appetite control in both animals in humans.u00a0
Small intestine bacteria are key for fat absorption. High fat diets promote growth of microbes which boost lipid digestion and absorption, over time these microbes presence can lead to over-nutrition and obesity, as published in the journal Cell Host and Microbe.
Diets laden with fried and sweet foods, processed and red meats refined grains, and high-fat dairy products reduce a person's likelihood of achieving older ages in good health and with higher functionality.
Eating Western-style fast food on a regular basis significantly increased the risk of diabetes and coronary heart disease, in a study involving middle-aged Chinese Singaporeans.
New research suggests that the typical Western diet accounts for approximately 30% of the risk of heart disease in a population, thus suggesting that swapping fried food for fruit and vegetables could cut the incidence of heart attack by a third.
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