Obesity ‘Bad for Brain’ by Hastening Cognitive Decline

Written by admin on October 3, 2012. Posted in Blog, Prevention

Being overweight is not just bad for waistlines but for brains too, say researchers who have linked obesity to declining mental performance.

Experts are not sure why this might be, but say metabolic changes such as high blood sugar and raised cholesterol are likely to be involved.

Obesity has already been tipped as a risk factor for dementia.

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Alzheimer’s ‘early signs timeline developed’

Written by admin on July 14, 2012. Posted in Blog

Scientists have assembled a “timeline” of the unseen progress of Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear.

A team at Washington University School of Medicine looked at families with a genetic risk of the disease.

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, they say signs appeared up to 25 years before the expected onset of the disease.

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