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Being overweight makes your brain 10 years older

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Being overweight makes your brain 10 years older

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...f-you-are-slim/

"Being overweight in middle-age makes the brain age by 10 years, research by the University of Cambridge has found.

The study, which scanned 473 brains, found changes in the brain structure of overweight people which are normally seen in those far older.

The volume of white matter - the tissue that connects areas of the brain and allows information to be communicated between regions - shrunk far more in those with a Body Mass Index above 25.

Shrinkage of parts of the brain is associated with a higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia..."

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I suspect being overweight isn't the cause, but rather a co-morbidity of the cognitive decline, both of which being caused by high carbohydrate intake.

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I agree! It is a high carb brain.

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Causing the overabundance of insulin . . .

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Diabetes III = Alzheimer's!

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Preaching to the choir, I know, but here's just one reference that calls Alzheimer's Diabetes III.

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