Saturated fats and refined sugar linked to brain damage, encourage overeating

‘For some people, losing weight is a no-brainer – eat less and move more, right? If it’s so simple, why can’t everyone do it? It turns out that if you’ve been eating a diet full of refined sugar and fat, you could actually be suffering from brain damage that stunts your ability to determine how much you should eat.
When it comes to weight loss, it’s important to realize that saturated fats and refined sugar do more than just pack on the pounds. According to researchers, they also change the brain’s chemistry, causing people to overeat these foods and triggering a vicious cycle of eating and gaining weight.
In a study that was published in Physiology & Behavior, trained rats were granted limited access to low-fat food and then tested on two types of problems – one that tested their memory abilities and learning dependent on the hippocampus, and one that did not.’
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