Eating too much your brain gets shrink
Well a news- if you eat too much of the fast food, then one of your body part will shrink but the news is not good as you think its bad because that body part is brain.
A new study has suggested, that people whose diet is high on trans fats that is the artery damaging fats are more likely to have the brain shrinkage which is associated with the Alzheimer’s disease. The study has also shown that people whose diet is rich in Vitamin C, Vitamin B complex and the Vitamin D, appears to have large brains then people who are low in these nutrients in their diet.
The Omega 3 fatty acid are very beneficial, they seem to benefit small blood vessels of brain, and affects the thinking ability related to those vessels. One of the leading investigator Dr Gene Bowman has suggested this.
People with diets high in 
trans fats are more likely to experience the kind of brain shrinkage associated with Alzheimer’s disease than people who consume less of the artery-damaging fats, the new study suggests.
Those with diets high in vitamins C and E, the B vitamins and vitamin D, meanwhile, appear to have larger brains than people with diets low in these nutrients.
And diets high in omega 3 fatty acids seemed to benefit the small blood vessels of the brain — “and the thinking abilities related to those vessels,” said lead investigator Dr. Gene Bowman.
In the research people had to fill out questionnaires which asked about the food and its quantity and frequency they ate. Also age as that affects the body as how it absorbs nutrients. Researchers check blood samples for the marked thirty different nutrients. Thereafter raft neuropsychological tests were done along with MRI scans of the subjects brain as well. Team was doing research on three things that is the total brain’s volume, cognitive functions and white matter change thought, that is the sign of small vessel disease of brain.
Small Vessel disease which is called as the cerebral small vessel disease, in this there is accumulation of the plaque deposits in small blood vessel in brain which can lead to stroke.
Bowman is a naturopathic doctor, who is in department of the neurology center at Oregon Health and Science University which is in Portland. As in words of Bowman he said “We know in Alzheimer’s disease that total brain atrophy (or shrinkage) is accelerated compared to people of the same age and same gender that don’t have Alzheimer’s disease,”.
The key findings has suggested that Vitamin B, Vitamin C and Vitamin D are associated with great brain volume. And people who had high level of trans fats have less brain volume. This also affects the memory, language, processing speed, attention and many other skills.
The trans fats can exist naturally in some food products are all right but trans fats in the study were hidden in potato chips, fried food, cakes, or processed foods. The trans fats are known to affect heart conditions and increase cholesterol and makes person risk for cardiac arrest. This study was done to study the relation of trans fats and brain. Bowman said . “I think our study is one of the first to look at blood levels of trans fats related to brain health. And when that occurs it changes the structure and chemical properties of the cell in an unfavorable way, “Trans fats are known to be bad for cardiovascular health, It makes sense that they’re probably bad for the brain, too.”
Thus fast food is bad not only for heart but also for brain.
