Western Diet Lowers Cognitive Performance

In teenagers, consumption of junk food can make the cognitive performance poorer, says study. Researchers from UWA and the Telethon Kids Institute, conducted a study that involved 602 members of the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, where each participant filled out a food frequency questionnaire at age 14, then underwent a battery of cognitive tasks three years later. It was found that the participants with a western dietary ...