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A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains

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An unhealthy diet (i.e., nutrient deficient diet) harms adult brains. Unsurprising. To learn more, search for resources on pubmed.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Perhaps you could value-add by providing what you think some good search terms are.

Lol Bait bitten.:p There's always someone demanding a source. Hate to break it to you but I'm not obligated to do that. That applies even more in the professional setting. If you're constantly bugging your leads or your supervisors on how to do something or asking them where the documentation is; well you're going to annoy the heck out of them.

Instead of sources we got a lecture how to be professional :(

What an odd bod hey?

“long-term damage to adolescent rat brains”

I keep hearing warnings from intelligent people that you shouldn’t trust conclusions drawn from rat studies because they are preliminary and usually sensationalized.

TBH if eating junk food harms a rat, that can live off literal trash, imagine what it does to a human whose dietary requirements are more refined.

Makes sense empirically, malnutrition is known to have a large impact on later life, I can imagine the same is true for bad nutrition as well.

I would challenge the assumption that rats have evolved notably-superior stomachs or immune systems or whatever.

Just because the species can survive scavenging human trash doesn't mean individuals aren't running risks and getting hurt. Just because I always see some rats around the dumpster doesn't mean everything's going well for them.

I would challenge your challenge mainly because I don't think that rats have superior immune systems because of eating whatever, but rather they eat whatever due to their superior immune system.

"We assume that many wild animals are resource limited, and so expect that immune responses may be submaximal. However, in truth, high levels of immune responsiveness are, in general, seen in wild rodents." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694458/

It's part of why they are successful scavengers.

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