Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function
After seven days on a high saturated fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers scored worse on memory tests
www.theguardian.com
Is this by design or an accident, Era?
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Study: Western-style diet can impair brain function
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www.theguardian.com
Is this by design or an accident, Era?
What is a Western diet? (French one? Greek one? Polish diet? American? Spanish diet?)
Articles like this are so reductive lol
Thread title should be 'high fat, high added sugar diet' can impair bran function
Articles like this are so reductive lol
Thread title should be 'high fat, high added sugar diet' can impair bran function
That's not anything close to a regular diet... maybe in the US but to call it western.. Nah chief
yeah, i agree
it's like they are trying to make it harder to understand
This is a mid-western-style diet they're describing.
SOURCE: Am mid-western, grew up eating McDonald's out of a dumpster. Also generalizing.
SOURCE: Am mid-western, grew up eating McDonald's out of a dumpster. Also generalizing.
America needs to have a real discussion about how terrible our dietary choices are and that we need to stop providing incentives for food that is terrible for people and start making healthy food cheaper...
But MUH FREEDOM literally got in the way of feeding children healthy choices at school lunches and it benefits big corporations exponentially to keep thing this way, so I'm not hopeful until we get some other fundamental changes in the country (and I'm certainly not perfect when it comes to dietary choices and have supported far too many corporations via fast food over the years, but I'm lucky enough to be able to make a lot of healthier decisions in regards to my diet in the past couple years).
But MUH FREEDOM literally got in the way of feeding children healthy choices at school lunches and it benefits big corporations exponentially to keep thing this way, so I'm not hopeful until we get some other fundamental changes in the country (and I'm certainly not perfect when it comes to dietary choices and have supported far too many corporations via fast food over the years, but I'm lucky enough to be able to make a lot of healthier decisions in regards to my diet in the past couple years).
if the lead supervising artist/developer/programmer of the halo franchise for the last seven years ate western food then you know it good
I can only think of American fast food chains and restaurants often serving large portions, and anyone not from the US who visits here will always comment how big our portions are and how gigantic our drinks our. Also that our snacks, like chocolates, are so sugary compared to what they'll normally eat.
I have a mid-size PC tower, a Whataburger large drink is just a hair more than half the size of my PC tower and similar width.
I have a mid-size PC tower, a Whataburger large drink is just a hair more than half the size of my PC tower and similar width.
I'm surprised someone would be alive on that diet.
Dumb and reductive to call this the western diet.
Dumb and reductive to call this the western diet.
Patiently waiting for someone to mention how their year teaching English in Asia boosted their brain power.
it won't be on this page of responses, probably. But I am fairly confident it'll happen.
it won't be on this page of responses, probably. But I am fairly confident it'll happen.
think back to how many hotdogs you've had this year
think back to when you also tastes cookie with your hotdog
the cookie cake will point to yourday of being a birth
I've never heard of anyone in the US drinking milkshakes for breakfast.
That explains why most Americans brains have swollen to the size of a triple whopper with cheese.
the good thing about this level of being an extreme polymath is that I can be blamed for everything. Yesterday I came across an old story claiming I didn't know Master Chief was in the game or that players like him. It's never too late to take your medicine. Or too early for a healthful chocolate milkshake.
My morning milkshake was fantastic. I had a 42oz chocolate milkshake from Whataburger along with 3 double cheeseburgers on Texas Toast. A healthy start to my typical Western day
Yeah that's a fairly typical day for most Americans, even if the timing is not exact.
Which is a...large number of people.
Which is a...large number of people.
Don't mix fat with carbs when you eat people. You're just creating more AGEs in your bloodstream which can and will fuck with your health over the long run.
also i got two ads on that linked site trying to get me to become a trucker
and you know truckers love hotdogs
I had a Sheetz down the road from me in college and that deal was super clutch. Did it at least once a week when hungover.
Where? Don't move to India lol my family eat a high fat high sugar Indian diet LOL #ethnicgroupwithmostdiabetes
maybe I'm wrong but I'm thinking what they actually ate isn't indicative of the actual diet, it was just used as a simple way to administer a consistent meal for the study that matches nutritionally what a typical Western diet is.
I drink a lot of coffee, but I'm a little confused. A latte is just a espresso with steamed milk. Are all the other drinks with the syrups and whipped cream, also lattes?