Dieting Limits Your Thinking

A study showing that “dieting makes you dim,” as the London Daily Telegraph put it, was recently released by Britain’s Institute of Food Research. It said that the effect of a weight-loss diet on memory and mental alacrity is equivalent to a double Scotch, though not as enjoyable. The cause is psychological, researchers said. Dieting produces a mental state akin to anxiety, so dieters’s minds are just preoccupied.