Brain and High-Fat Diet

How much fat is in your typical daily food intake? Studies at the Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence, University of Washington have reported that obesity among people who eat a high-fat diet may involve injury to neurons. Within the first three days of consuming a typical American diet in terms of fat content, rats consumed nearly double their usual daily amount of calories. Both mice and rats fed this high-fat diet continued to gain weight throughout the study. They also developed inflammation in the hypothalamus, a portion of the brain that contains neurons that control body weight. (http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-high-fat-diet-may-rapidly-injure-brain-cells-that-control-body-weight?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b9d5c3b16f-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email)