BIN that hamburger now. Scientists in Canada say that a high-fat diet not
only clogs arteries and piles on the pounds, it can also impair memory.
Gordon Winocur and Carol Greenwood of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
in Toronto fed one-month-old rats a diet rich in either animal or vegetable fat
until they were four months old. Forty per cent of their calories came from fat,
but the diet was otherwise nutritionally complete. Control rats got standard lab
chow, in which only 10 per cent of the calories come from fat.
From four months of age, the equivalent of…
