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At the start and end of the week, the volunteers ate breakfast in the lab. Before and after the meal, they completed word memory tests and scored a range of high-sugar foods, such as Coco Pops, Frosties and Froot Loops, according to how much they wanted and then liked the foods on eating them.
“The more desirable people find the palatable food when full, following the western-style diet, the more impaired they were on the test of hippocampal function,” Stevenson said. The finding suggests that disruption of the hippocampus may underpin both, he added.

What a shocker. I vote to ban the use of terms like "western-style diet." It's meaningless and serves no specific purpose, kinda like "Mediterranean Diet." No one can precisely define either, so the population is left to their own interpretations along with the distorted ideas of health we are exposed to every day.