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Does the food we eat have an impact on our brain?

Portrait of Joao Duarte.

The WCMM researcher Joao Duarte and his team strive to understand how a diet rich on fat and sugar impacts memory functions in relation to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Their new study on mice shows that although an unhealthy diet leads to memory impairment, the damage does not have to be permanent.

The WCMM researcher Joao Duarte was recently in focus when Lund University Diabetes Centre, LUDC, published an article about his research on how a diet rich on fat and sugar impacts memory functions in relation to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Read the article:

A diet rich on fat and sugar damaged the memory in mice – but not permanently