How Does Trans Fat Harms Your Memory

How can eating trans fat harm your brain and your memory?

There are a number of dietary links between both dementia and heart disease. Three of them are eating excessive sugars, grains and trans fats. Recent research has indicated that heart disease also increases your odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

According to the authors of this study, vascular damage may predispose your brain to increased amyloid plaque buildup, which is a hallmark of this degenerative brain disease. Plaque buildup worsens with stiffer arteries, so preventing arterial plaque formation may be a critical factor in the prevention of dementia.

Our ancestral diet was very high in saturated fats and virtually void of sugar and non-vegetable carbohydrates. Today, not only do most of us eat excessive amounts of carbohydrates, these carbs are refined and highly processed.

In the last decade, we’ve also shifted over to genetically engineered GE grains and GE sugar from beets and corn, of which the long-term health effects have never been established.

What Can You Do?

A basic strategy to prevent many health problems:

1. Try to avoid excessive sugars, grains, trans fats and processed foods.

2. Try to eat as many whole foods as possible. Some of these foods include; fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, wild caught fish, grass fed beef and pastured eggs.

3. Avoid pesticides and other chemicals in your food.

4. Avoid-genetically modified foods (GMOs).

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