A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of a Western Diet on Hippocampal Volume in Children

• Main Authors: Jill Stadterman (Author), Kyrstin Belthoff (Author), Ying Han (Author), Amanda D. Kadesh (Author), Yuliya Yoncheva (Author), Amy Krain Roy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: Over the course of the 20th century, there has been a sharp increase in the consumption of saturated fat and refined sugars. This so-called "western diet" (WD) has been extensively linked to biological alterations and associated functional deficits in the hippocampus of anima...