I just love this study!
Published in the British diabetes and endocrinology journal, The Lancet, a study of some two million people showed a direct relationship between weight and dementia development. The study contradicts conventional wisdom and other smaller scientific studies which showed obesity as a contributing factor in dementia. This study demonstrated the exact opposite!
Underweight people had a 34% greater risk of developing dementia than people of normal weight. And the obese had a 29% lower risk of demonstrating memory loss and confusion.
A 2008 study of 6000 people found that people with big bellies while in their 40s were more likely to develop Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. But a study involving 6000 is no rebuttal for a study of two million and current popular opinion is siding with the modern survey involving the higher numbers. Lead scientist, Nawab Qizilbash of Oxon Epdemiology admitted his results were completely opposite. While the science used in the old study can not be disputed the Times of Patienrs said the patients in the new study were an average of 55 years and over 45,000 of them developed dementia over an average of nine years. The risk of dementia fell steadily as their weight rose.
Published in the British diabetes and endocrinology journal, The Lancet, a study of some two million people showed a direct relationship between weight and dementia development. The study contradicts conventional wisdom and other smaller scientific studies which showed obesity as a contributing factor in dementia. This study demonstrated the exact opposite!
Underweight people had a 34% greater risk of developing dementia than people of normal weight. And the obese had a 29% lower risk of demonstrating memory loss and confusion.
A 2008 study of 6000 people found that people with big bellies while in their 40s were more likely to develop Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. But a study involving 6000 is no rebuttal for a study of two million and current popular opinion is siding with the modern survey involving the higher numbers. Lead scientist, Nawab Qizilbash of Oxon Epdemiology admitted his results were completely opposite. While the science used in the old study can not be disputed the Times of Patienrs said the patients in the new study were an average of 55 years and over 45,000 of them developed dementia over an average of nine years. The risk of dementia fell steadily as their weight rose.
Qizilbash, as quoted in the Times, said the findings held despite attempts to adjust it for other causes of dementia and the tendency of obese people to die earlier.“We did a lot of analysis to see if we could explain it but it just seems to persist. We couldn’t get rid of it, so we’re left with this apparent protective effect,” the scientest was quoted as saying.
The co-author of the paper said the results suggested “that doctors, public health scientists and policymakers need to re-think how to best identify who is at high risk of dementia. If we can understand why people with a high body mass index have a reduced risk of dementia, it’s possible that further down the line, researchers might be able to use these insights to develop new treatments,” Stuart Pocock of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was quoted as saying by the London newspaper.
Qizilbash warned, however, that being overweight or obese brings with it a much higher risk of death from any cause and a higher risk of stroke and other diseases.
I suppose the last statement had to be said but it was nice, for a moment, to think that a little excess belly fat could have some beneficial quality.
I suppose the last statement had to be said but it was nice, for a moment, to think that a little excess belly fat could have some beneficial quality.
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