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Many of us get too occupied to cook a real or full meal and alternatively opt to buy fast foods for lunch or dinner. However, it becomes an addictive routine for many and they find that they can't do without junk food. However, it will not be good news to those in love with junk foods as they are in for a great shock of a lifetime.

Researchers have now proved a study on the effects of junk foods and have found out that junk foods do considerable damage to one's health and brain. Let alone obesity, rotting of teeth that is obviously a physical effect, junk food has a lot to do with one's brain.

Trans-fats are unsaturated fats and have for their carbon-carbon bond. Therefore making it hard for the body to digest the molecules.

The readily trans fats found in the fries or different processed food, the chemicals send signals to the brain after consuming in an act that reduces the brain's ability to control one's appetite. This effect increases one's appetite consequently they can't stop to eat eventually obesity develops.

According to a report by Dr. Gene Bowman who has a strong track record for leading interdisciplinary research teams interested in the role of diet and nutritional status in healthy brain aging, trans fats are both bad for one's heart and for the brain too.

After consumption of trans-fats (junk food), One's health is destabilized by Coronary heart disease, high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes and afterward brain damage.

Junk food affects memory. An Australian study carried out on rats and rodents has proved. The rats were fed with junk food and the rodents with a normal diet. The rats found it difficult to relocate things contrary to the rodents. The results apply to human as well according to coauthor Margaret Morris Ph.D.

In one of the studies published in the journal Public Health Nutrition, baked foods such as doughnuts, croissants and bran muffins and fast foods including pizza and hamburgers are associated with depression. The study revealed that people who consume fast foods often are 51 percent likely to develop depression