Being Fat is Bad for Your Brain
Being fat is bad for your brain, says New York Times Commentator OLIVIA JUDSON. Several recent studies reveal that being overweight in your 40s is directly porportional to dementia in your 70s. Thin people over 40 have less decline in brain function than fat people over the next decades.
Brains usually atrophy with age, but being obese appears to accelerate the process. This is bad news: pronounced brain atrophy is a feature of dementia.
And so, as singer and songwriter Joe Jackson says on 1982's Night and Day, "everything gives you cancer" (or brain damage!). Add food to the list!
