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What You Ate as a Teenager Could Impact Your Brain Now

For a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers raised mice on a balanced diet up until their teenage years, when some of the mice switched to a diet that wasn’t so balanced and some kept on with their perfectly balanced menu. The teen mice who were fed a poorly rounded diet consumed food that lacked omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids — brain-boosting nutrients that are not produced in the human (or mouse) body but are easily found in fatty fish, walnuts, soybeans, and spinac