article_snippet.sent: Children may be drawn to greasy fries and burgers, but fatty foods can reduce the speed at which Children brains work, according to a new study.
article_snippet.sent: a new study found that children who ate a diet higher in saturated fats and cholesterol had slower reaction times and a poorer working memory.
article_snippet.sent: Children who ate the fatty diet performed worse when Children who ate the fatty diet were given a task-switching game to complete, University of Illinois researchers said.
article_snippet.sent: A new study has found that children who ate a diet higher in saturated fats and cholesterol had slower reaction times and a poorer working memory.
article_snippet.sent: Children consuming diets higher in saturated fats exhibited longer reaction time during the task condition requiring greater amounts of cognitive flexibility,' A new study says.
article_snippet.sent: (the rate at which the body can use oxygen during exercise) and BMI, children consuming diets higher in saturated fats exhibited longer reaction time during the task condition requiring greater amounts of cognitive flexibility.
article_snippet.sent: Further, increasing saturated fat intake and dietary cholesterol were correlated with greater switch costs (such as the difference in performance and accuracy between repeating a task and switching a task), reflecting impaired ability to maintain multiple task sets in working memory and poorer efficiency of cognitive control processes involved in task switching.
article_snippet.sent: ‘These data are among the first to indicate that children consuming diets higher in saturated fats and cholesterol exhibit compromised ability to flexibly modulate cholesterol exhibit cognitive operations, particularly when faced with greater cognitive challenge.
highlights_snippet.sent: Found those who ate fatty food had slower reaction times and worse working memories than children who ate healthier diets .