Sugar resulted Memory Loss

Researchers experimented with fatty foods and drinks with high sugar content of the rat. Less than one week, the mice suffered from memory loss.

It is surprising that Australian researchers are reduced cognitive ability occurred even before the rats had added weight from eating "junk food".


Dangers of cheap and unhealthy food

"We never thought that this could happen so quickly," said Margaret Morris of the University of New South Wales, one of the members of the research team.

He added, "These findings may have impilikasi for humans. Due to the type of food as that which is now being consumed by humans. Prepared foods are tasty and cheap."

Rats were fed cakes, biscuits, and "junk food" other. Drinks consumed is a liquid with the sugar content of 10 percent. And appetite brand five times higher than the other group of mice fed a healthy diet.

Inflammation of the brain's hippocampus

In the span of a week, the researchers found that inflammation in the brain and hippocampus of mice experienced memory loss. "We can not prove why, but this seems a result of inflammation of the brain. Increasingly severe inflammation in the hippocampus, the greater the cognitive deficits."

Two years ago, in the UK people who are used as experimental objects. They were fed "junk food" for five days. As a result, they react to five times slower than a group of people who eat healthily.

 How to cope?

Research in Australia and concluded that "diet containing high fat and sugar, or just a high sugar content, in a short time can damage the hippocampus of the brain that causes a loss of memory, even before gaining weight."

Morris from the University of New South Wales said, further research is needed to determine whether treatment of inflammation could improve cognitive deficits or whether exercise can fix the damage.

"These findings suggest that poor diet continuously will have an impact on brain function," said Morris.