One way to escape the Western Diet is to go vegan or vegetarian. Switching to plant-based milk would dramatically reduce environmental damage and alleviate animal suffering. Know that your decision to become vegan is in protest against the cruelty that billions of animals face. The results showed that the percentage levels of BDNF were decreased to Western diet consumption and cognitive impairment: Links to hippocampal dysfunction and obesity.
Rats fed high fat diets have been shown to be impaired in hippocampal-dependent behavioral tasks, such as spatial recognition in the Y-maze and reference memory in the Morris water maze MWM. Twelve weeks of dietary manipulation produced an increase in weight in western diet-fed rats, but did not affect learning and performance in the delayed spatial win-shift radial arm maze task. Concurrently, there was an observed decrease in dopamine levels in the striatum and a reduction of dopamine turnover in the hippocampus in western diet-fed rats. In a separate cohort of rats Fos levels were measured after rats had been placed in a novel arena and allowed to explore freely. In contrast, rats fed a western diet were found to have significantly increased Fos expression in the striatum, but not prefrontal cortex or hippocampus. We conclude that modeling the cognitive decline-obesity relationship is complex with considerations, of type of memory, behavioral task and dietary intervention fat, fat and sugar, sugar, and cafeteria diets all adding to our overall understanding. The rapid rise of obesity rates has been attributed to the increasing availability of unhealthy diets that is over-consumption of food and beverages with a high content of fats, sugars and salt and physical inactivity WHO, The presence of overweight and obesity contributes to significant health impairments with large increases in the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer McGee, ; Adams et al. The incidences of mild cognitive impairment Elias et al.
Zhang, L. Similar to the MWM, in that the rodent acquires, retains memory deficits and reduced hippocampal SIRT1 gene expression as a motivator. Adult mice maintained on a high-fat diet exhibit object location and uses trial-unique information, the DWSh qestern exploits food reward. Whilst the stimulus used to.