short term memory loss and had great difficulty exercising

At Ukmedix News we have published tons of research which highlights the dangers of high fat diets over the long term. Diabetes, heart disease and cancer are just a few of the problems that you are statistically far more likely to experience by not eating a balanced healthy diet.

New research however has come to light which shows that the dangers of eating a high fat diet are not just a long term problem but also could cause short term medical problems too. The study focused on how when rats were given a high fat diet for as little as ten days they suffered from short term memory loss and had great difficulty exercising. The study will be controversial because it will add weight to the argument put forward by some people that those people who consume high fat diets are less intelligent and lazy.

Professor Andrew Murray from the University of Cambridge who co-authored the study explained that the results showed that people should think carefully about lowering the fat content of their diet on a daily basis because it could make an immediate difference to their health and mental agility. The research was done by feeding one group of rats a low fat diet which had only 7.5 percent of its calories in fat and another group of rats a diet containing 55 percent of their total calories in fat. The researchers noted that the muscles of those rats on the high fat diet had more problems finding the energy to exercise and this caused their hearts to work harder and become larger.

They also recorded that after nine days on the high fat diet the rats took significantly longer to negotiate a maze and made far more mistakes than those who were fed the low fat diet. Rats are often used for clinical studies like this because they react to so many things in the same way as humans do. However it is possible the negative effects of consuming a high fat diet would hit them far quicker because they have significantly shorter life spans than we do.

The full results of the research are published in the FASEB Journal.