Research Check 13

Article: "Are These Foods Really Healthy?
Author: Danya Winter, RD
Site/Source: Prevention Magazine

Text:
"...Society for Neuroscience's conference in San Diego... researchers presented several studies neatly demonstrating that a particular type of trans fat attacked brain tissue, muddying thought and destroying memory.
My Thoughts:
I didn't know there were different types of trans fat, that is a good "look up" idea, if the brain is harmed in anyway then that will unintentional harm the body and one's healthy.

Text:
"...Rats eating trans fats made more errors than the vegetable oil group, they didn't seem to learn from previous trips through a maze. Granhholm (neuroscientist Lotta Granholm, PhD, director of the Center on Aging at the Medicial University of South Carolina) suspects that the trans fats were choking off a key neurological protein, possibly by inflaming the brain's tissue."
My Thoughts:
My question is could this possibly kill a person, granted when ur senses are not all there, you make reckless decisions, but that can also be said for why as a society we eat foods, fast food that we know are bad for us, but is also very addicting. Could it be a silent killer.

Text:
"Food manufacturers had began using a comparatively cheap new hybrid sweetener called high fructose corn syrup back in the late 1960s, and a few years later, rates of obesity and diabetes began to skyrocket."
My Thoughts:
Humm... Idea! Look up all things bad in foods, ingredients, man made ingredients that have cause or maybe causing obesity. Also the dangers of meat products they is a lot of controversy as to if they are healthy or harmful.

*Research Site: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Text:
"These two ingredients- trans fat and high fructose corn syrup- are in 40% of the foods Americans eat every day. And a growing number of experts believe that both are contributing to the epidemic levels of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease in the U.S."