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Now it's official-- obesity affects every single body system in dramtically harmful ways!
As if we need more reasons to tend to our families’ diet, here is yet another bit of bad news. It seems that, according to a new study* of obese adults, in addition to increased risk of heart disease, Type2 diabetes, and cancer, obesity also contributes to “severe brain degeneration”.
The study examined the brain scans of 94 adults in their seventies and found that the obese subjects had 8% less brain tissue than their normal-weighted counterparts and brains that looked 16 years older. People who were classified at overweight had 4% less brain tissue and brains that appeared 8 years older.
Researchers found losses in the areas of the brain responsible for higher functioning, like problem-solving, language and impulse control (frontal lobe), memory and spacial navigation(temporal lobe, hippocampus), and motor functions and learning (basal ganglia).
This information only adds to the growing arsenal of reasons to get serious about what we eat. ..and what we teach and model for our children about food. The American diet is replete with short-cut, processed foods that are quick and accessible, but totally void of nutrition. Most of us really must rethink what and how we eat.
When you carry too much weight, you not only considerably shorten your life expectancy, taxing all of your body’s systems from cardiovascular to your musco-skeletal , but you reduce your quality of life. You don’t feel well. You don’t get around well. And now, this study suggests, that you are likely not even thinking straight!!
With regard to children, we know that the habits we teach our children in childhood stick with them throughout adulthood, especially eating habits. This is why so many of us have a hard time staying with positive life changes that we know can save our own lives. Perhaps this study’s bit of bad news will be the impetus you need to begin your family’s commitment to eating well and getting active.
Click here for Why sugar is the first thing to cut back on in your diet,
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Click here and see Why Slow Walking may be the best way to start your exercise program,
Click here for 10 Ways to Keep your Mind Kind Sharp,
*See Livescience.com, http://www.livescience.com/health/090825-obese-brain.html
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