Brain food.Brain food The adage "you are what you eat" applies not just to heart, muscle and bones, but to the brain as well, says G. Harvey Anderson, a nutrition researcher at the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, . "Diet can have a profound effect on behavior," he said at the recent Bristol-Myers press symposium in Washington, D.C., on nutrition. Working in his laboratory, Carol Leprohon-Greenwood found that rats fed a diet high in polyunsaturated fats Polyunsaturated fats A non-animal oil or fatty acid rich in unsaturated chemical bonds not associated with the formation of cholesterol in the blood. Mentioned in: Cholesterol, High learned more quickly than rats eating saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be . Anderson speculates that when nerve cells use saturated fats in their membranes, the membranes become less flexible. The more rigid membranes may distort the receptors for the neurotransmitters that control cell-to-cell communication, making them less sensitive. Whether humans can improve their mental performance by cutting down on saturated fat "we just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. ," says Anderson. |
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