In a one-of-a-kind new study, researchers have linked diets high in fat and sugar with lower cognitive skills — suggesting that sort of "junk food" may be bad for our brains as well as our bodies. As psychology researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia explain in a new paper published in the International Journal of Obesity, findings from a unique battery of virtual reality (VR) tests suggest that younger people who eat a lot of junk food exhibit poorer spatial navigation and memory skills than their healthier-eating counterparts. Led by psychology researcher Dominic Tran, the USydney team recruited […]

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