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The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline
Being overweight affects the brain
A diet high in saturated fats and sugars affects your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels. It also affects the parts of the brain that are important to memory.
- A 2015 study found obese children performed worse on memory tasks than children who weren't overweight.
- Another study found obese people have less white matter in their brains than their lean peers - as if their brains were ten years older.
- A recent study supports one prominent theory that high body mass is linked to inflammation, which affects the brain.
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Being overweight affects the brain
A diet high in saturated fats and sugars affects your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels. It also affects the parts of the brain that are important to memory.
- A 2015 study found obese children performed worse on memory tasks than children who weren't overweight.
- Another study found obese people have less white matter in their brains than their lean peers - as if their brains were ten years older.
- A recent study supports one prominent theory that high body mass is linked to inflammation, which affects the brain.
Memory problems
Obese people find it more difficult to pick apart spatial, item, and temporal memory, as well as the ability to integrate them.
If you're obese, you might be up to 20 percent more likely not to remember where you put your keys.
Changing eating habits
The diet of obese people degrades their memory and makes them more likely to overeat, a study revealed.
Making a meal more memorable may help to eat less bad stuff. If you watch TV while you eat, you'll eat more than planned.
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Even a single occasion of increased glucose levels in the blood can harm your brain. It can impair your memory and attention.
High sugar consumption causes inflammation in the brain. But, it can be reversed by following a low-sugar, low-GI diet.
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When you consume too much sugar, you could develop resistance to insulin, the hormone responsible for regulating the function of brain cells.
The sugar crash
When you eat too much sugar, your blood sugar levels peak and drop. This causes you to experience irritability, mood swings, brain fog, and fatigue. You may find yourself feeling anxious or depressed. Carb-laden foods create the same response.
Chronically high blood sugar levels are linked to inflammation in the brain, which may be a cause of depression.
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Stereotype threat
It happens when a person is in a situation where they are anxious that they may conform to a negative stereotype aimed at his or her social group.
Positive stereotypes, or success on previous memory tasks, can help combat this negativity.
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