SAD/WS-diet) in Humans

Richard J. Stevenson and colleagues (Australia) demonstrated in studies performed on humans in 2020 that a WS-diet can rapidly impair control of appetite in humans—an effect that could promote overeating in consumers of a WS-diet. The study also suggests a functional role for the hippocampus in one’s ability to control appetite. It provides new evidence for adverse neurocognitive effects of a WS-diet in the human brain, showing that the type of foods eaten by animals (rats/mice) and by humans compromise their health. Not only did they gain considerable amounts of weight due to loss of appetite control, but also showed a measurable decrease in memory functions. Neither of these conditions involving increased weight and decreased memory contribute to a long, healthy life. They an contribute to increasing one’s risk for a dementi
a such as Alzheimer’s.