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How high-fat diets could be contributing to your anxiety

Eating a lot of fat can adversely affect your health, brain function and mood management. For an experiment, rats are divided into 2 groups. One group of rats consumes a standard diet with 11% fat, while the second group consumes 45% of a high-fat diet. The rats with a fatty diet had less number of total bacterial species, with an increase in Firmicutes and a decrease in Bacteroides. The changes in brain activities are also found in high-fat diet groups.