A new study has recently revealed that high-fat meals could be more harmful for men than women.
Researchers found that male and female brains are not equal when it comes to the biological response to a high-fat diet.
Deborah Clegg, Cedars-Sinai Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute scientist, said that in the study it was as if the brains of female mice had a chemical force field that kept the dangers of fats and sugars from harming them.
The growing body of evidence in the research also hinted that the brain inflammation might be a key factor in the obesity epidemic and these negative brain changes could occur even over a short period of eating fatty and sugary food and clearly affected males much more than females, she further added.
The research suggested that one size may not fit all when it comes to nutritional guidance aimed at keeping patients from becoming dangerously overweight. An occasional high-fat meal might be OK for women, but something men at risk for obesity would need to avoid always.
However, the investigators discovered one encouraging sign for males, that they could manipulate the brain of the mice in such a way they would develop the anti-inflammation characteristics of the female brain.
The study is published in the journal Cell Reports.
