High-Fat Diets
You'll probably recognize Letitia's Chick-fil-A habit as having two major
aspects of the Western diet we discussed in chapter 3--high fat and high-
glycemic-index (high-GI) carbohydrates. The Western diet is particularly
destructive to PTSD patients, so let's first consider the effects of the
abundance of fat (as always, when I talk about high-fat diets, I mean diets
high in unhealthy fats like saturated fat, trans fats, and fats used in fried
food, rather than healthy fats such as omega-3s or those found in olive oil).When animals consume a typical Western high-fat diet, it makes them
more susceptible to PTSD.