High-Fat Foods Make You Lazy (and Dumb)

Yes. It sounds a bit harsh, but it's also a bit true. ScienceDaily reports on research conducted at Cambridge University showing that just nine days of a high-fat diet reduced the distance that rats could run to half of the distance run by rats on a low-fat diet. Wait, there's more: ScienceDaily reports that the rats on the high-fat diet were also making mistakes sooner in the
maze task, suggesting that their cognitive abilities also declined. In fact, the number of correct decisions before making a
mistake dropped from over six to an average of 5 to 5.5.
Yikes! More on this in the New York Times, or InjuryBoard.com.