Fat food is harmful to teenagers
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Unhealthy eating, overweight is a scourge of our society, especially teenagers. As it turned out, fatty food under the influence of the brain in the process of development negatively affects the memory, and obesity leads to hearing loss.
Consumption of delicious fatty foods entails obesity, cardiac dysfunction, diabetes and other unpleasant problems. And if you observe moderation? Adults can be allowed to absorb fat within reasonable limits, but adolescents are advised to avoid meeting fat-containing foods to prevent memory problems.
Scientists have published the data of testing mice, conducted in the Catholic University of St. Paul (Madrid). For more than two months, 15 male adolescents received a diet containing almost half the calories of unhealthy saturated fatty acids. And the total number of calories is not overestimated. The other part of the subjects absorbed the same number of calories without exceeding the level of saturated fat. The same experiment was carried out on adults.
The researchers focused on the spatial memory of mice. The animals were placed in a test enclosure that had a chamber and two parts of the Lego constructor. Place and one object was known to rodents, it remained to examine the second unfamiliar subject. For the study, mice were given ten minutes, then returned to the cage. The test was repeated after 60 minutes and 24 hours, each time putting something new. The essence of the study consisted in the rapidity of the reaction of the individual to the presence of an unidentified object.
Mice of adolescence, who received with food an increased amount of fatty acids, needed more time to recognize a familiar and unfamiliar thing. The fat-saturated diet had a bad effect on spatial memory. Naturally, there were no weight problems and no diabetes. It has been suggested that saturated fats affect the brain activity of growing mice.
In the course of the study, changes in the neuronal structure of the hippocampus of adolescent mice that consumed saturated fats were noted. Transfer of rodents to normal nutrition did not change the state of affairs, which proved the long-term effect of fats on the body.
A medical center at Columbia University showed a link between hearing loss and obesity at a young age. Hearing loss occurs throughout the frequency range, especially in the low frequency range. Frequencies of 2 Hz or less are not perceived by adolescents who are overweight. This is not critical, since the human hearing is in the range of 20Hz-20kHz. However, within the limits of the noise of the megalopolis, problems often arise.
The National Center for Health Statistics in the United States in 2005-2006 conducted an assessment of the health of young people 12-19 years. Assumed that obesity reduces the amount of anti-inflammatory protein (adiponectin), produced by fat tissue. Decreasing the protein causes an inflammation reaction that can cause pathologies in the inner ear cells that perceive the acoustic signals. Overweight with its own weapons - diabetes and vascular diseases so it can harm the body.
So we have to think before we cross the McDonald's threshold.
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