{"id":17796,"date":"2015-08-19T20:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=17796"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:05:27","slug":"too-much-sugar-and-fat-would-make-you-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/too-much-sugar-and-fat-would-make-you-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"TOO MUCH SUGAR AND FAT WOULD MAKE YOU STUPID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/stupid-look.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/stupid-look.jpg\" alt=\"stupid look\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/stupid-look.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/stupid-look-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Oregon University have discovered that too much sugar or fat in your diet would make you stupid.<\/p>\n<p>I know you must wonder how what you are putting in your stomach affects your brain.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that high-sugar and high-fat diets cause changes in gut bacteria (microbiome) that appear to lead to a significant decrease in &#8220;cognitive flexibility&#8221; (the ability to adapt to changes).<\/p>\n<p>The effect was more on high-sugar diet, which also showed an impairment of early learning for both long-term and short-term memory.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers from Oregon University used laboratory mice that consumed different diets for the research and the findings were published in the journal <i>Neuroscience<\/i>, in work supported by the Microbiology Foundation and the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>During the research, the researchers found that mice on the high-sugar and high-fat diet showed decreased physical and mental performance in the test.<\/p>\n<p>The study suggests that diets high in sugar and fat might actually be impairing our ability to think clearly every day.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>S.O.Z<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Oregon University have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[2794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32990,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions\/32990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}