Low Carb Diva

August 4, 2011 Day 25

Dieting forces brain to eat itself, scientists claim

Well it seems the geniuses are at it again. Claiming that if you go on a diet that your brain will start eating itself. Quite scary considering some in our population need all of the brain cells they have and just cannot afford to lose anymore.

I wonder if they did a study on dieting that did not advocate for the low fat whole grain mantra how many brain cells would be lost. My guess probably not as many or even any at all considering our brains are made up of 2/3rds fat. After all if a baby's brain needs fat to develop my guess is that even as adults we need that fat and cholesterol to save our brains from cannibalizing itself in a quest for nutrients.

So one can conclude that to keep yourself from turning into one of those brain eating zombies you need to either stop dieting OR start eating saturated fat!

Too bad they don't have a saturated fat council that could run public service announcements on TV.

Their slogan could be: Fat It's Where It's At or Fat It's What's For Dinner.