A diet that with high quantities of junk food makes a person more likely to feel fatigued and become sedentary, according to research.
April 6/Los Angeles/University of California at Los Angeles -- A diet that with high quantities of junk food makes a person more likely to feel fatigued and become sedentary, according to research in the April 10 issue of the journal Physiology and Behavior.
UCLA psychology professor Aaron Blaisdell and his colleagues placed 32 female rats on one of two different diets for a period of six months. One group of rodents consumed their regular diet, which was made up primarily of ground corn, fish meal and other mostly unprocessed foods. The other group ate highly processed foods that contained significantly more sugar in order to simulate a human junk food diet.