iBrew Challenge 2014
By Ufairah Akram
Gorging on junk food may not only make you overweight, but also turn you sluggish, a study suggests. The study by University of California, Los Angeles, suggests that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary. An experiment done on 32 rats, where half were given a healthy, unprocessed diet while the other half were on a highly processed diet, suggested that fatigue may result from a junk food diet. The rats were given a task in which they were needed to press a lever to receive food or water. The rats on the junk food diet demonstrated impaired performance; taking longer breaks than the lean rats. Read more at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Junk-food-may-make-you-lazy/articleshow/33364207.cms.
