Fat might not be the enemy you've been warned about.

Exposure to a diet heavy in fats and sugars during early development primes the brain to overreact to unhealthy foods in adulthood. This combination leads to high levels of inflammation and reduced ...

A high-fat diet, similar to typical saturated fat–rich junk food, causes certain brain cells in the hippocampus to become overly active after only a few days. This overactivity stems from reduced ...

A mouse study, published earlier this month in the journal Neuron, zeroes in on a neurological mechanism that may help explain why memory deficits occur in response to long-term high-fat diets.

"After controlling for working memory and BMI, measured separately to the experiment, participants' sugar and fat intake was a reliable predictor of performance in that final, seventh, test," Dr Tran ...

Just two days. That’s all it takes for a high-fat diet to begin undermining your memory, according to groundbreaking research that challenges everything we thought we knew about diet and brain health.

We all know the many health effects that a diet high in saturated fat and refined sugar has on our bodies. Now, in the first study of its kind on humans, scientists find that it appears to also ...

The trans fats found in your favorite junk foods aren't just clogging your arteries: New research shows they might also be messing with your memory. Young and middle-aged men who ate large amounts of ...

When it comes to your noggin, not all fats are created equal, with new research finding the same fats that wreak havoc on the body may do the same to the mind. The good news, the fats known to be ...

Put simply, older men with the most abdominal fat had nearly 1.5 times the risk of dementia as men with the least abdominal fat. The 25% of men with the most abdominal fat also showed faster declines ...