Junk food makes the Brain Shrinking Faster

Jakarta, Junk food is known as the type of foods that are high in calories but no nutritional value. It turned out that these foods not only can trigger the disease, but also can make the brain shrink.

Someone who frequently eat junk food will lead to being overweight even obese because of the high fat content. And this excess fat can make the brain known to be shrinking.

These foods not only can alter the physical structure of the brain, but also lead to memory problems and increased risk of dementia and to make the age of the gray old brain becomes faster, ie about 16 years sooner.

Gray area is the thinking part of the brain and consists of brain cells involved in muscle control, seeing, hearing, memory, emotion and talking, while the white area in the brain is the material that connects the cells to each other.

Researchers found that the brains of people who are overweight and obese have an average size of 4-8 per cent smaller than healthy people. This is because blood is not easy to enter the blood vessels making it difficult to reach the brain that trigger the occurrence of lack of oxygen and brain cells eventually die.

"We know that fatty foods can clog the arteries so bad for the heart, and this is also exactly the same as occurs in blood vessels in the brain," said Paul Thompson, professor of neurology at the University of Los Angeles, as quoted from Dailymail, Wednesday (25 / 6 / 2011).

Thompson said that the average person lost 0.5 percent of his brain in a year. But for people who are obese will lose 4 percent of his brain that he suffered brain aging more quickly.

Areas that experienced shrinkage is greatest in the reasoning, assessment and processing of long-term memories. Because of excess weight can change people's minds.

Meanwhile, Dr. Toby Goldstone, an endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust said current eating patterns have evolved to see sugary and fatty food as something interesting, and these foods are very easy to find.

To that end if you want part of your brain does not experience aging and shrinking more quickly, so avoid foods that contain high calories like junk food so that blood flow to the brain is not disturbed.