Can't Remember Anything? Skip the Junk Food

clipped from psychcentral.com Unhealthy Meal May Trigger Memory Decline clipped from psychcentral.com An intriguing new area of research links adults with type 2 diabetes, unhealthy high-fat meals and memory decline. According to background information in the new study, there is growing evidence linking diabetes to cognitive complications in humans. Adults with type 2 diabetes are especially vulnerable to acute meal-induced memory deficits after eating unhealthy foods. Type 2 diabetes is associated with chronic oxidative stress, a major contributor to cognitive decline and Alzheimer disease. Participants who ate the high fat meal without vitamin supplements showed significantly more forgetfulness of words and paragraph information in immediate and time delay recall tests, relative to those who had the water meal or the meal with antioxidant vitamins. Researchers found that vitamin supplementation consistently improved recall scores relative to the meal alone.