{"id":2513,"date":"2009-08-26T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/brained-by-obesity.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:12:01","slug":"brained-by-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"Brained By Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Need another reason to eat well? How about brain damage?? <\/p>\n

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Obesity degrades your brain. Not only obesity, even overweight does it. <\/div>\n
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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. <\/div>\n
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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!!<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n

Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years.<\/p>\n

The results, based on brain scans of 94 people in their 70s, represent “severe brain degeneration<\/a>,” said Paul Thompson, senior author of the study and a UCLA professor of neurology.<\/p>\n

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Here is the article.<\/a><\/div>\n
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