It seems that steering away from products such as margarine should keep men remembering better for a long while to come, or at least help it won't damage their brain storage capacities, as trans fats and memory seem to be on bad terms with each other.

A recent study regarding trans fats and memory called "Trans fat consumption linked to diminished memory in working-aged adults" and published recently in the latest American Heart Association Meeting shows that there was a direct relation between those men under 45 years of age who eat more trans foods and how badly they were able to remember particular words.

According to Science Daily, the investigation focused on approximately 1,000 men under 45 years of age, separating them into groups through how much of this compound found in processed foods they actually consumed. The results clearly pointed out that trans fat's memory damage was significant among those with a diet based on this.

While the trans fats and memory study also featured some post-menopausal women, the majority of the participants - 690 of them - were men in their prime, according to USA Today; due to this, there is insufficient data to know if the effects on women are actually the same as those presented on men.

It seems that those men who admitted to eating more trans fats - a compound found in processed foods such as margarine - remembered less words than their counterparts who ate healthier in a memory test.

The quiz showed 104 different words for the patients to remember, and those who ate the most trans fats remembered an average of 11 words less than those who ate the least of this compound, which led scientists to believe in trans fats' memory damaging properties.

"Trans fats increase the shelf life of the food but reduce the shelf life of the person," said Dr. Beatrice Golomb, the lead author behind the study and a professor in the San Diego School of Medicine, according to Consumerist.com. "They're a metabolic poison and that's not a good thing to be putting into your body. They don't provide anything the body needs."