(Food-Beverage-News.Com, June 26, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- What teens are eating may have a lot to do with how they perform in school. A new small-scale study on animals that has come out of Spain is suggesting that adolescents who consume high levels of fat in their diets experience long-lasting effects on both learning and memory.
The research was shown in the Endocrine Society's Annual Meeting in San Francisco, and had scientists from CEU-San Pablo University in Madrid showing off their study on mice who were fed a high-fat diet. The researchers noted that animals who consumed high levels of fat had significantly impaired spatial memory when compared to mice in a control group with a more standard diet.
The researchers speculated that the brain's memory center is susceptible to effects of high-fat diet during the developmental years within adolescence, given the amount of hormonal changes that are existent in the subjects.
The scientists looked at 15 male mice of adolescent age who were put on an eight-week high-fat diet. The diet had 46% of calories coming from saturated fat over the two months.
The control group was given a conventional diet over the same time, while a third group was given a high-fat diet in the latter stages of their life.
Groups were then put through memory tests to see if there were noted differences. The experiment was conducted three times, and researchers noting it took a significantly longer amount of time for the rodents to find a new object if they were exposed to a high-fat diet in their adolescent stage.
The biggest notation in the study was that the adolescent mice who received the high-fat diet did not seem to have a reversal of the negative effect after being removed from the diet.
Other animal studies have shown possible links between the diet type and hyperactivity, which could give some insight to why so many teens are now being diagnosed with like afflictions of the mind.
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