Study: High-fat consumption can make you stupid and lazy

A new study on rats revealed threatening short-term effects of eating a high-fat diet. After 10 days of continuous consumption of fats and cholesterol the rats experienced short-term memory loss and made exercise difficult for them.

Andrew Murray, co-author of the study and a professor and researcher at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom said that the long-term complications of high-fat diet such as diabetes and obesity are well-known to the public but the short-term effects are took for granted and have given little attention. In the study Murray and his colleagues fed two groups of rats, the first one consumed a low-fat diet (7.5 percent of calories as fat) while the second group of rats were given a high-fat diet (55 percent of calories as fat). After nine days, the high-fat diet group took longer to complete amaze and made more mistakes as opposed to their low-fat diet counterpart. Murray suggested that the same results will transpire in humans, suggesting that high-fat diets make humans lazy and stupid.