I've found a very interesting article today from digg.com. Basically, it turns out that if your a little round in the abdominal area and continuing to get rounder, it may cause shrinkage of the brain.
How is this possible? Well, having clogged arteries, is mainly what starts the process. Clogged arteries stop oxygen and blood getting to the brain, which in turn can shrink your brain and eventually cause death. Blood flow and oxygen to the brain are hard to get when you eat a lot of fatty foods. So now, not only are we worrying about not looking good around the waist, but now we also have to worry about our brains shrinking? Oh God.
Paul Thompson and his colleagues took 94 people for the experiment. In their test, they found that the more lean people had bigger brains, and the obese/overweight people with 8% smaller brains. "The brains of overweight people looked eight years older than the brains of those who were lean, and 16 years older in obese people," says Thompson.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327222.400-expanding-waistlines-may-cause-shrinking-brains.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
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Brain regions which are essential for cognition are smaller in older people who are obese, making their brains look up to 16 years older than their true age. Brain shrinkage is linked to dementia.
ReplyDeletePrevious studies suggest that obesity in middle age increases the risk of dementia decades later. Now, brain scans of older people have revealed the areas that are hardest hit, as well as the full extent of brain size differences between obese people and those of average weight.
People with higher body mass indexes had smaller brains on average, with the frontal and temporal lobes -- important for planning and memory, respectively -- particularly affected.
awesome, I never know that there is a connection between waist and brain. Great to have this info.
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