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> Specifically, the review found that mice eating a Western diet during the early stages of life that are important for development worsened anxiety and memory
by notRobot 6y ago
> Specifically, the review found that mice eating a Western diet during the early stages of life that are important for development worsened anxiety and memory function, regardless of weight gain. It also led to an increase in addiction-like behaviors, as the mice grew to crave the sugary and high-fat foods, alongside a decrease in social behaviors.
Maybe it's just me, but it's always been really obvious to me that my diet has a pretty significant effect on ny mental health. I can't be the only one who feels like shit after mostly only eating fast/junk food for prolonged periods of time?
- Bancakes 6y agoYep. Of all chemicals, how did we evolve into dopamine?!
- ac29 6y agoWhen calories were hard to come by, that pleasurable reward response was powerful enough to have an evolutionary advantage.
- alistairSH 6y agoYes. But the key finding in this study seems to be that, when consumed early in life, the "western diet" makes the mice stupider throughout their lifespan, even if they are later fed normal diets.
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- hogFeast 6y agoIf you feed a child mouse food, I am sure they will get stupider too. There is no information here.
- TaupeRanger 6y agoAnecdotes are not informative here. This is likely just confirmation bias. The periods during which one tends to eat a lot of fast food are also those during which they have less time to prepare food themselves, often due to busy schedules or other stressful situations. Those likely contribute more to your mental state than having several cheeseburgers on successive nights. But we don't know, because, as the article says, nutrition epidemiology is notoriously difficult to the point of being impossibly useless.
- rriepe 6y agoI've noticed that when I feel like shit, I'm hard on myself over my diet.
- qwertox 6y ago> I can't be the only one who feels like shit after mostly only eating fast/junk food for prolonged periods of time? You kind of start to forget it that it's the food which is causing this, specially when there are other factors which also contribute to your negative feelings, like the problems poverty or mobbing cause if they are present for too long. Then the junk food begins to be something comforting, even though it really drags you down into a vicious circle. I really wish that added sugar would be taxed so heavily that people start to limit their intake, or seriously think about not feeding it to their kids since it's too expensive.
- sitkack 6y agoThere was as documentary I watched years ago where they had a school for the problem kids, and the onsite cafeteria made healthy fresh vegetable rich foods. It would seem that the food quality affects so much and to such depth. Everyone should have easy access to vegetable rich, low-processed foods.