Junk food damages growing brains so severely it affects long-term memory.
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Eating a fatty, sugary Western diet (read: junk food) during the crucial years of brain development impairs memory long-term…
Eating a fatty, sugary Western diet (read: junk food) during the crucial years of brain development impairs memory long-term…
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Diego never imagined he’d carry a gun. Not as a child, when shots were fired outside his Chicago-area home. Not at age 12, when…
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