Junk food can blow your brain!

Scientists at Oxford found that eating high levels of so-called 'bad fats' present in junk food can clog up the brain.

Scientists at the University Laboratory of Physiology in Oxford have found that eating high levels of so-called 'bad fats' present in junk food can clog up the brain and interfere with the way it sends messages.

According to Daily Mail, the team led by Dr Alex Richardson found that these bad fats include man-made trans-fatty acids-the by-products of the process that allows manufacturers to extend the shelf life of foods by using cheap, solidified vegetable oils instead of expensive animal fats.

Trans fats displace healthy fats in the brain that become incorporated into the brain's structure and affect the functioning of signalling systems between cells.

"Every time children eat crisps, biscuits or cakes they are filling themselves with what are essentially toxic fats. There are no health benefits and many health costs to these hydrogenated fats, yet they are all that some children and adults are eating. They are replacing the essential fats that would make their brain and body work properly with ones that are clogging up the machinery," she said.