Alzheimer's Link to Junk Food

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Posted: 9:00 AM Dec 1, 2008 Alzheimer's Link to Junk Food You may want to skip that burger and fries for lunch today. Research shows that fast food could affect your brain in ways you probably didn’t expect. Reporter: CBS

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There is bad news if you’re a junk food junkie.

Junk food may lead to Alzheimer’s Disease.

Researchers fed mice fast food for nine months and found abnormal brain patterns strongly associated with Alzheimer’s.

The findings show a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase the risk of the most common type of dementia.

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