{"id":302,"date":"2009-08-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/08\/high-fat-foods-impact-on-memor.html"},"modified":"2009-08-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:00:00","slug":"high-fat-foods-impact-on-memor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/08\/high-fat-foods-impact-on-memor.html","title":{"rendered":"High-Fat Foods Impact on Memory and Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study in rats released last week shows that eating a high-fat diet impairs memory and cognitive abilities.&nbsp; The study was conducted in the UK, and published by The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting test: scientists taught a group of 32 rats over several months to follow a complicated maze to receive a treat.&nbsp; All the rats learned how to get the treat, without having to backtrack in the maze.&nbsp; Then, half the rats were fed a very high-fat chow, which caused them to lose their ability to remember the maze paths to get the treats.&nbsp; All of the rats began to fail the cognitive testing after eating the high-fat chow.<\/p>\n<p>Also, test were conducted on the rat&#8217;s abilities to exercise while given a high-fat feed.&nbsp; Trained to run on a treadmill, the fat-fed rats did 30% worse than a control group that was not fed the high-fat chow.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted at Cambridge University by Andrew Murray, similar tests were concurrently performed on humans.&nbsp; Those results, reported as similar to the rats, have not yet been published as they are still being analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>So, that feeling of sluggishness and dim thinking after a fat-filled meal may be real after all.<\/p>\n<p>FYI.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fasebj.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/fj.09-139691v1\">Exercise Study Abstract from The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/13\/fatty-foods-affect-memory-and-exercise\/?em\">New York Times blog on the studies, by Tara Parker-Pope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please email this blog to your friends, and ask them to visit daily: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/drnorris\">beliefnet.com\/drnorris<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on Twitter, too, for YOU!&nbsp; <a href=\"www.Twitter.com\/drnorrischumley\">www.Twitter.com\/drnorrischumley<br \/><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in rats released last week shows that eating a high-fat diet impairs memory and cognitive abilities.&nbsp; The study was conducted in the UK, and published by The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 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