Degeneration...

 

Researchers announced earlier this month that they had found a link between a Western diet and cognitive decline.

Published in the Cell Press journal iScience, the Marshall University authors said. 
The mice eating the western diet increased their body weight and showed insulin resistance, lowered oxygen levels and low energy.

Additionally, it showed signs of behavioral changes in line with those typical of humans with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

"In this study, we found that a western diet produced systemic oxidant stress along with evidence of activation of Na,K-ATPase signaling within both murine brain and peripheral tissues," the authors wrote. 

"We also noted this diet caused increases in circulating inflammatory cytokines as well as behavioral, and brain biochemical changes consistent with neurodegeneration.