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another reason to not be fat. fat people are stoopider

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WASHINGTON — Older women hoping to keep their minds young should keep an eye on the scale -- researchers have found a link between slowing down mentally and piling on the pounds.

For every extra point gained on a scale of obesity, scores in reasoning, memory and other mental skills fell, Dr. Diana Kerwin of Northwestern University in Chicago and colleagues found.

"What we found is that actually obesity in and of itself is an independent risk factor for declining cognitive performance," Kerwin said in a telephone interview.

She used data from the Women's Health Initiative, an ongoing national study of illness and death among older American women. She compared women's body mass index, or BMI, a measure of obesity commonly used by doctors and researchers, to their results on a test that measured their mental sharpness.

The bigger your head, the better your memory?

The test evaluated the memory, abstract reasoning, writing, and temporal and spatial orientation skills of the group of women aged 65 to 79.

Among the 8,745 post-menopausal women who completed the test, for each point increase in the BMI scale, scores on the mental test went down by one point, Kerwin's team reported on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society.
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"While the women's scores were still in the normal range, the added weight definitely had a detrimental effect," she said.

"Even if you do have normal blood pressure and you're not diabetic, it still should be something that's looked at as an independent risk factor for your brain health."

Kerwin is conducting other studies to see if where the fat is on the body matters -- for instance if it is around the waist or on the hips.

But for now, she says, the important finding is that for older women with obesity, "even if your blood pressure's normal, even if you're not diabetic, even if your cholesterol's normal, you should still be discussing this with your doctor."

BMI is a measure of height to weight and is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared. A person 5 feet 5 inches tall becomes overweight at a BMI of 25, or 150 pounds, and obese at 180 pounds, which equals a BMI of 30.
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This study would make more sense if they did a before and after comparison of women after they gained the weight. Otherwise, this study is flawed.
 
I can see where this study is going. Oxygen from the blood is reaching the brain in limited supply because of all the clogged arteries and fat pockets.
 
This sounds like it's trying to say that when you get fat, it makes you stupider... though all the data shows is that stupid people just let themselves get fatter more often.
 
darkxshade said:
Snowball effect 🙁
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Yes, this might have had an effect.
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highland145 said:
Maybe they're fat because they are stupider. Chicker or egg.
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I say the stupid came first. If you can't figure out how to stop eating then maybe you're stupid 😉

Assuming the OP isn't trolling (no source url provided), it seems reasonable to assume that correlation does not mean causation. Both are caused by an underlying issue, but one does not directly affect the other.
 
BlahBlahYouToo said:
and i didn't even post it in.
and it's an entirely different article altogether.
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It's about the same thing: connecting cognative function to obesity.

Edit: ...and yes, I was amazed to note that you didn't take advantage of the opportunity to post in a thread about obesity. Were you unconcious that week?
 
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Fuck, but we are stoopid! Since when did a link between two conditions = one thing causing the other? Could it be that when old people sit inside their homes getting zero exercise and zero mental stimulation both their body and brain degrade? And maybe the old folks venturing outside to experience life are probably both stimulating their brains and exercising their bodies to keep them both healthy?

My wife's grandmother was a healthy, intelligent, vibrant woman until her husband died and she spent the next 10 years of her life living alone and staring at the walls. After that she developed dementia and her health went to shit. The brain and the body both need exercise and the elderly folks neglecting one probably don't exercise the other either, so while stupid and fat go hand-in-hand, you can't say one caused the other.

This is right up there with the hookers and blow study. Snorting the blow makes you crave hookers! Or is it the other way around? Well, maybe that's not such a good example to further my argument.
 
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