Fast Food & Your Brain

As you might already know, intaking a high amount of sugar and calories can affect your weight but it can also affect various parts of your brain and body as well. Fast food tends to have a negative effect on your brain and body due to the lack of nutrients in the food you are consuming.

An unhealthy diet can lead to unknown anger and depression. This is due to the lack of neurotransmitters. These are responsible for your happiness and by eating fast food you are blocking those transmitters. This is why it is important to put better foods in your everyday diet. A diet of low in omega-3 fatty acids risk bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and dementia.

The brain contains synapses, these are partly responsible for learning and memory. Eating fast food can interrupt the brain’s making of healthy, efficient synapses. Regularly eating fast food can impair learning and your capability of remembering.

Occasionally, it is okay to eat unhealthy, but it should not become a habit. Instead of making it a part of your regular diet, you could eat more fresh fruit and vegetables so your body doesn’t adapt to the grease and fat that is in fast food.