Brained By Obesity
Posted On August 26, 2009
Need another reason to eat well? How about brain damage??
Obesity degrades your brain. Not only obesity, even overweight does it.
What does this mean? Loosing your Gray Matter can’t be a good thing, but the study below only looked at the volume of brain tissue — not how well the remaining brain cells actually worked.
That said, you can probably guess that you’re not going to think as well when you’re working with fewer cards in the deck!!
A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today.
Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years.
The results, based on brain scans of 94 people in their 70s, represent “severe brain degeneration,” said Paul Thompson, senior author of the study and a UCLA professor of neurology.
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