These foods are the kiss-of-death when it comes to maintaining or losing weight. They affect your blood-sugar levels negatively and leave you feeling unsatisfied and hungry. Yet if you’re eating an average Western diet you’re more than likely consuming at least a few of them on a regular basis.

Suffering from memory melt? It may be because you’re ­cutting carbs, a study in Appetite reports.
Volunteers followed either a very low-carb or a low-cal diet. Those who quit breaking bread performed worse on memory tests than their ­calorie-counting peers, but their scores returned to pre-diet levels when they started eating small amounts of starches [...]