Junk food can make you lazy
A study suggests that too much of junk food not only makes you overweight, but can also turn you sluggish.
The study by University of California, Los Angeles, suggests that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary -not the other way around.
The researchers put 32 rats on one of two diets for six months:
- The first, a standard rat’s diet, consisted of relatively unprocessed food like ground corn and fish meal.
- The second diet was highly processed, of lower quality and included more of sugar, mimicking a junk food diet.
After three months, it was seen the 16 rats on the junk food diet had become fatter.
The experiments the researchers performed suggest that fatigue may result from a junk food diet.
The rats were given a task in which they were required to press a lever to receive food or water and it was found that the rats on the junk food diet took longer time to respond than the lean rats.
Minimize intake of junk food if don’t want to be seen as a sluggish individual.
