Your Brain on Junk Food

BY JESSICA GIRDWAIN,

Skip the Taco Bell run: Five days of eating a junk-food diet can deteriorate your memory, finds new Australian research.
After that amount of time, rats that ate high-fat, high-sugar foods performed worse on special memory tests, and couldn't locate things as well as rodents fed a normal diet. These rats had problems noticing if an object had moved; for you, that’s like when you can’t find your keys.

Healthier D.I.Y. snacks for the junk food addict!

We all have our vices. For some people, it's drinks with friends every weekend; for others, it's shopping; and for many, it's the seemingly lesser evil of eating too much junk food. As much as you love opening up a bag of chips while watching a DVD or cracking open a bottle of soda to quench your thirst, you know how bad it really is for you. Instead of completely cutting out those things that make life worth living, why not make you own healthier versions instead? Here are a few suggestions: