High-fat diet consequences include mental fatigue - Neuroscience News
Summary: Rats fed on a high-fat diet were more mentally exhausted following a novel object recognition test than those fed a healthier diet. Findings suggest high-fat diets not only contribute to obesity, but they can also have an impact on mental fatigue and cognitive abilities.
The high-fat diet group performed poorly on the novel recognition test when compared with the control group. Image is in the public domain.
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This study is confusing and appears misleading. It first posits that the condition of obesity can contribute to not only physical stress, but cognitive as well. Then it shifts its focus to how a high fat diet is correlated with these maladies, with absolutely no specifics of what foods the 2 diets included. What constituted “high fat” and what constituted a “standard” diet? Not all fats are created equal. I noticed bias in the commentary, such as that “not surprisingly” those on the high fat diet gained more weight. It smacks of the old ‘fat makes you fat’ junk science that was found to be mostly promoted by lobbyists for the sugar industry. There is much evidence that a diet rich in healthy fats and very low in sugar/carbohydrates helps prevent obesity.
Is there any way you could share what kind of fats they were ingesting? The study and the results are meaningless without knowing that.
Was it a high fat diet based on avocados and fish or based on fried foods and soybean oil?