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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on August 25, 2009, 12:14:10 PM
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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.
Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years.
LiveScience (http://www.livescience.com/health/090825-obese-brain.html)
If I didn't know better, I would swear that Live Science specializes in diagnosing DUmmies.
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Is it reversible?
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I'm not sure the causation works out here, it seems just as likely that the obese population may contain a heavily (da-DUM-dum!) disprportionate number of people with brain mass/degeneration issues in the first place, since it seems likely these folks would have much less impulse control than the fully functional ones. To make the causation link implied, it would have to be a life study with a baseline on the same people and taking genetics into account as well.
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Well, I guess that explains Jeanane Garofalo...
...and Michael Moore...
...and Algore...
...and...
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I can see why being morbidly obese would age them prematurely, but it's the loss of brain tissue that I don't understand . . . what I'm trying to say is that I wonder if the brain itself gets fat as well and pushes the tissue out, and if so, would weight loss recover it?
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It wasnt drain bamage that caused my new belly button it was 'cause I quit smoking . :-)