Chew on This: Forgetful? Drinking too much beer
Can't remember much about last night? Carrying a beer belly? You could be a subject for dementia.
Boston University School of Medicine researchers found that people with a high level of the kind of fatty tissue that clumps around the organs - visceral fat - are at an increased risk of developing dementia. They studied only people with an average of 60, 70 percent of which were women. So you may have time not to worry yet. But just be aware that mid-life health can influence dementia risk.
Measuring BMI (body mass index) and the waist, and using scans to study the amount of body fat, they discovered that as BMI increased, brain volume decreased.
So that feeling that you're losing sense of what's happening when your stomach has been pressing up against the bar too long is real. A beer gut is known to affect the heart, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure. Now it seems it affects the brain, too.
What's good for your mood may not be good for your brain.
Boston University School of Medicine researchers found that people with a high level of the kind of fatty tissue that clumps around the organs - visceral fat - are at an increased risk of developing dementia. They studied only people with an average of 60, 70 percent of which were women. So you may have time not to worry yet. But just be aware that mid-life health can influence dementia risk.
Measuring BMI (body mass index) and the waist, and using scans to study the amount of body fat, they discovered that as BMI increased, brain volume decreased.
So that feeling that you're losing sense of what's happening when your stomach has been pressing up against the bar too long is real. A beer gut is known to affect the heart, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure. Now it seems it affects the brain, too.
What's good for your mood may not be good for your brain.
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Posted on Thursday 20th May 2010 in
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