Just four days of eating junk food can disrupt memory. A high-fat, ultraprocessed diet overstimulates certain brain cells and affects how memories are processed. The hippocampus is especially ...

Registered dietitian nutritionist Carrie Dennett shares an example of how nutritional research studies are often inaccurately ...

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A short burst of fatty foods may disrupt a surprisingly vulnerable set of brain cells in the hippocampus, researchers warn.

Scientists discovered that high-fat junk food disrupts memory circuits in the brain almost immediately. Within just four days, neurons in the hippocampus became overactive, impairing memory. Restoring ...

“I try to provide a healthy, balanced diet, but I don’t buy [junk food] as routine,” the mom explained on the forum Another Mumsnet user commented, “When they are teens, you have to loosen the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - About 42 million people across the U.S. use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP benefits, every month. It helps low-income families pay for everything from fresh fruits ...

Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced. West Virginia ...

A study looked at a year of TV ads on a major, free channel in Australia. A new study in Australia looked at how much junk food advertising kids were exposed to and the numbers were staggering. Food ...

Radio veteran Paul Burke recounts how UK government ad restrictions previously saw his client Hamlet change tack in the 90s. He thinks the ‘less healthy food’ TV ban should inspire similar ...