date:May 22, 2012
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The women all participated in three cognitive function tests, spaced out every two years. In addition the women filled out detailed food frequency surveys at the start of the study prior to the cognitive testing.
Okereke and her team revealed that women who consumed the highest amounts of saturated fat had worse overall cognitive and verbal memory scores over the four years of testing, when compared to those who consumed the lowest amounts.
Women who ate the most of the monounsaturated f