Do high-fat diets make us stupid and lazy?

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 09:42 in Health & Medicine

Short-term memory getting worse? Exercise getting harder? Examine your diet. New research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) showed that in less than 10 days of eating a high-fat diet, rats had a decreased ability to exercise and experienced significant short-term memory loss.

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