Fatty Foods Linked to Moods
The researchers concluded that fatty acids appeared to cause emotional and physical changes in humans.A study published last August in the Journal of Clinical Investigation enlisted 12 non-obese, healthy volunteers who were fed either fatty acids or a saline solution through a feeding tube. Using an MRI, the researchers then scanned the volunteers’ brain waves as they were exposed to sad and neutral music, and sad and neutral facial expressions.The fatty acids appeared to cause emotional and physical changes. “Eating fat seems to make us less vulnerable to sad emotions, even if we don’t