LiveScience.com livescience Staff
livescience.com – Wed Aug 12, 3:03 pm ET
By now, we've all heard that high-fat diets are bad for our health in the long run. But what about the short-term?
A new study on rats finds that 10 days of eating a high-fat diet caused short-term memory loss and made exercise difficult. While the finding may not seem a big surprise, the researcher say it might suggest that high-fat diets make humans lazy and stupid.
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After nine days on a high-fat diet, the rats took longer to complete a maze and made more mistakes in the process than their low-fat-diet counterparts.
In the fat-laden rats the researchers found increased levels of a protein called uncoupling protein 3, which made them less efficient at using oxygen needed to make the energy required for running.
“It's nothing short of a high-fat hangover,” said Dr. Gerald Weissmann, editor-in-chief of journal. “A long weekend spent eating hotdogs, French fries, and pizza in Orlando might be a great treat for our taste buds, but they might send our muscles and brains out to lunch.”
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The headline is precisely as it appears in the original story online.
As the US Government begins to migrate toward Whole of Government campaign planning and execution, Personnel Job Descriptions will need to be modified:
1. Must be able to fit in a standard economy class airline seat.
2. Must be able to walk five miles without needing an ambulance.
3. Must be able to survive without Twinkies for extended periods.
