High-Fat Diet Makes You Stupid And Lazy – A new study shows that ten days of eating a high-fat diet makes you stupid and lazy by causing short-term memory loss and making exercise difficult.
While the finding in the research study of high-fat diets in rats may not seem a big surprise, the researcher say it might suggest that high-fat diets also make humans lazy and stupid.
“Western diets are typically high in fat and are associated with long-term complications, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart failure, yet the short-term consequences of such diets have been given relatively little attention,” said Andrew Murray, co-author of the study and currently at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. “We hope that the findings of our study will help people to think seriously about reducing the fat content of their daily food intake to the immediate benefit of their general health, well-being, and alertness.”
Rodents are good analogs to humans for studies like this, but research in humans would be needed to confirm that the effects cross over. Also, because rats live much shorter lives, study effects may play out on significantly shorter time scales than in humans.
Murray and colleagues studied rats fed a low-fat diet (7.5 percent of calories as fat) and rats fed a high-fat diet (55 percent of calories as fat). Muscles of rats eating the high-fat diet for four days were less able to use oxygen to make the energy needed to exercise, causing their hearts to worker harder – and increase in size.
After nine days on a high-fat diet, the rats took longer to complete a maze and made more mistakes in the process than their low-fat-diet counterparts.
In the fat-laden rats the researchers found increased levels of a protein called uncoupling protein 3, which made them less efficient at using oxygen needed to make the energy required for running.
“It’s nothing short of a high-fat hangover,” said Dr. Gerald Weissmann, editor-in-chief of journal. “A long weekend spent eating hotdogs, French fries, and pizza in Orlando might be a great treat for our taste buds, but they might send our muscles and brains out to lunch.”
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September 4th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Suddenly I feel stupid and lazy. Pass the Cheetohs!
Thanks
Sara
September 8th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I always thought that fat people were stupid and lazy…and now I have proof!!!
September 10th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Hello. Great job. I did not expect this on a Wednesday. This is a great story. Thanks!
September 16th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
image and video are besr
September 20th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Great! That’s all these fat people need is another excuse to keep on eating!
September 20th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
And there I thought all fat people were stupid and lazy and now i realize that its not their fault…its their food’s fault!
September 20th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
love those pics… I think you made some good points also.
September 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Sure fits with what I see at work everyday! The fat people never get any real work done…
October 13th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Hello, solid and illuminating article. I need to add a few remarks. If you have superior cholesterol, then you may question, will a low fat diet low down cholesterol? This is a serious inquiry, because it is a easily known fact that the most efficient way to lower cholesterol is direct diet. Certainly one element of a diet for lowering cholesterol will include being low in fat. But this is entirely part of the history. It is critical to clear that it is the concentrated fattens that you want to reject it from the foods you feed.
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:08 am
who cares it there big there still beauitful