Posted on 04/09/2015 6:14:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The team at Oxon Epidemiology and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine analysed medical records from 1,958,191 people aged 55, on average, for up to two decades.
Their most conservative analysis showed underweight people had a 39% greater risk of dementia compared with being a healthy weight.
But those who were overweight had an 18% reduction in dementia - and the figure was 24% for the obese.
"Yes, it is a surprise," said lead researcher Dr Nawab Qizilbash.
He told the BBC News website: "The controversial side is the observation that overweight and obese people have a lower risk of dementia than people with a normal, healthy body mass index.
"That's contrary to most if not all studies that have been done, but if you collect them all together our study overwhelms them in terms of size and precision."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
OMG! LOLOLOLOL!!! Best line of the day!
At dinner in the nursing home is heard -- "you going to eat that"?
Me either! Nor that Pascha bread that I just downed (with plenty of REAL butter of course!
“Too Lazy to Go Crazy”
The obesity actually correlates with the same shrinkage of gray matter as Alzheimer’s but the obese die earlier and they don’t generally live long enough to get Alzheimer’s.
My very thin great aunt lived to 104, her brother, my grandfather her brother dies at 100 and their aunt lived to be 106. I think it is in the genes. I hope I got them, except I am not as thin as they were.
Being overweight ‘reduces dementia risk’
That’s just crazy talk.
Strangely, it doesn’t seem to have worked for Michael Moore...
You win
Well some of us will be as sharp as tack well into our mid nineties.
...so the noted age 55 is somewhat early for dementia onset...
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Actually not so early. We see a fair amount of dementia in the 50s and 60s.
actually not true, heavier people live longer.
Bovine Satology.
My Grandmother (God Rest her Soul) was overweight, and developed demetia., as did HER Mother.
More waste of taxpayer dollars on a study that I bet, in just a few years, ANOTHER study will say is wrong.
http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/02/being-overweight-is-linked-to-lower-risk-of-mortality/
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/diets/455337/Fat-and-fit-Stay-physically-active-and-live-longer
This article was linked on the Drudge Report. Don’t be exalted too much, the article right below it has the exact opposite title and conclusion: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/02/obese-more-likely-to-develop-alzheimers-disease
Woot!!!
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