Posted on 08/13/2020 6:48:34 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
“Dr. Amen and collaborators provide compelling evidence that obesity alters blood supply to the brain to shrink the brain and promote Alzheimer’s disease.”
The study examines brain blood flow in 17,721 adults between 18 and 94. To do this, researchers use a brain imaging technique known as single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
The CDC adds nearly 43 percent of Americans adults over 60 are obese.
(Excerpt) Read more at studyfinds.org ...
Now if I could just remember where I set my breakfast BACONATOR?????? Only one left in the bag and I will have to make it last until break time!
I’m safe! 94lb. wet.
So that’s whats wrong with me.... shrunken brain syndrome.
“I’m safe!”
I’m jealous!
Coming from a long line of Scotsmen that love to tie on the feed bag, I’m forever working out or attempting to say no.
That said, of the many in my father’s extended farm-raised (SW Ohio) family, ZERO obese.
Not a chance I want to take.
plus, chocolate makes your pants shrink.
I’ve seen that fun flick many times and never realized that Pritzker had been a student at Faber College?
“chocolate makes your pants shrink”
And all this time, I thought it was global warming?
I love my wool slacks.
Tell you all what. This study, although common sense would tell anyone these results, is pretty much spot on.
I have got to go back to staying away from the carbs.
At 6 foot and 220 pounds I find I dont feel real good and this dam semi quarantine is a pure SOB in trying to lose it.
That and the NP is trying to kill me.
This is the first health story that actually makes common sense I’ve seen since the Wuhan Flu hit us.
no, it’s chocolate. and everything else that tastes good.
If you’re a fat slob you’ll have all kinds of health problems
Lose weight
Excercise. Eat a light vegetarian diet. Cleanse.
You’re life will improve dramatically
Putting on weight, or being fat? Why don’t they just say if you are fat you have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s? My grandmother and mother were both not fat, they were actually quite svelte, yet they both had Alzheimer’s towards the end, when they were in their 80’s. Other than genetics, the only thing alike about them was that they didn’t use their brain for anything other than watching TV.
I cannot get to the link at work but here is James Wood
My wife, who is in her mid eighties, is in the early stages of dementia. She has never weighed more than 105 lbs. Her mother died of alzheimers’ and was afflicted at about the same age.
Since we don’t know what actually causes Alzheimer’s, this is a load of manure.
...A very long list of diseases; therefore we should do nothing that will ameliorate the symptoms or some of the underlying problems?
So you will pass on hydroxychloroquine if COVID attacks?
A full understanding has yet to be worked out?
Good luck with that.
“no, it’s chocolate. and everything else that tastes good.”
A lean friend that had a heart attack, now on the HA diet.
If it tastes good, spit it out!!!
i know but thats no way to live, IMHO.
I’ll never be skinny again. :(
“...A very long list of diseases; therefore we should do nothing that will ameliorate the symptoms or some of the underlying problems?”
No, that’s not what I was saying.
What I mean is, if you do not know the cause of a disease, then logically, if you state “XXX increases the risk of the disease”, you are either not being honest, or not being accurate. It might be that there is a higher correlation between people with XXX than people without, but even then, you have not established any causal link and so you shouldn’t make a statement that implies you have.
It has nothing to do with ameliorating the symptoms, as “putting on weight” is not a symptom of Alzheimer’s, nor is “low blood flow” to the brain a symptom of Alzheimer’s. Of course the brain not getting enough oxygen from the bloodstream is not a very good thing for the brain, but that has nothing to do with Alzheimer’s, at least, as far as we know.
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