High-fat diets slim down learning

From San Diego, at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

It’s well accepted that eating a high-fat diet has numerous detrimental effects on the body from the neck down. Now, preliminary findings in mice suggest that a high-fat diet can also harm the brain.

Lih-Chu Chiou and her colleagues at the National Taiwan University in Taipei fed male and female mice either high-fat chow, with about 45 percent of calories from fat, or normal chow, with about 13.5