High BMI Decreases Brain Effectiveness

Reported in the journal Neurology, research has found that middle aged adults scores on cognitive tests were affected by body-mass index.  People with higher BMIs tended to score less well.

The research was done on over 2,200 healthy workers with a baseline in 1996 and follow up testing in 2001.  The researchers speculate that the results might foreshadow that people with higher BMI are more susceptible to dementia in later life via the effect of fat cells on body chemistry.

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