Obesity Epidemic

I am a little tired of hearing about obesity, especially obesity supposedly liked with dementia. What is the real scoop?

 Scientists have identified an obesity epidemic that spans the globe. According to World Health Organization, worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. In 2020, 39 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese. Over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese. Obesity is bad for the brain, period. “Big may be beautiful”—not for the brain.

 Studies of 8,000 twins showed that being overweight doubled the risk of developing dementia; and being obese quadrupled it. A higher BMI (Body Mass Index) was associated with shrinkage in every region of the cortex.

 Individuals with excess belly fat are more than 3 times as likely to develop memory loss and dementia later in life compared with those with a more svelte waistline

 More tomorrow