Maybe the researchers should be checked for fat in the skull.
This is one of the most ridiculous conclusions to a ridiculous study I have ever heard!
"Larger midsection linked to dementia; Fat in 40s a big predictor in study" by Rob Stein, Washington Post | March 27, 2008
Seeing as food costs so much, 'murkn, maybe you should stop eating, huh?
WASHINGTON - People who have big bellies in their 40s are much more likely to get Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia in their 70s, according to new research that links middle-age spread to fading minds for the first time.
The study of more than 6,000 people found that the more fat they had in their guts in their early to mid-40s, the greater their chances of becoming confused or showing other signs of senility as they aged. Those who had the largest midsections faced more than twice the risk of the leanest.
Then what's Bush's excuse?
He's LEAN!!!!
Surprisingly, a sizable stomach seems to increase the risk even among those who are not obese, the researchers reported in a paper published online yesterday by the journal Neurology.
"A large belly independent of total weight is a potent predictor of dementia," said Rachel Whitmer, a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif., who led the new study.
Oh, I get it now!
It's an HMO that is PROMOTING THIS SHIT!!!!
DON'T EAT ANYMORE, readers!
The findings are alarming in light of America's growing girth, Whitmer and other health specialists said.
The research is the latest evidence that fat in the abdomen is the most dangerous kind. Previous studies have linked the apple-shaped physique to a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer. Researchers suspect that those fat cells are the worst because of their proximity to major organs. They ooze noxious chemicals, stoking inflammation, constricting blood vessels, and triggering other processes that might also damage brain cells.
Yeah, never mind the poisoning of the environment or the tainted vaccinations, etc.
It is all in the FAT!!!!
Whitmer and her colleagues analyzed data from 6,583 members of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California who had their belly fat carefully calculated as part of a broad health study between 1964 and 1973. The researchers examined whether there was a link between abdominal obesity between ages 40 and 45 and the chances of developing Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia by the time they hit their 70s, between 1994 and 2006.
The risk for dementia, the researchers found, increased steadily with the amount of fat in the abdomen, even after accounting for alternative explanations, such as other diseases, bad habits, and lower education. They found no such link for fat in the thigh."
How would you be able to distinguish which fat is doing what?
I hope you read all that, because nothing sounds more ridiculous!!!
The point of this is for you to stop eating!!!
Good thing, too, as food costs rise!
Leave all that food to the rich, will ya?
