Dr Sudha Seshadri – lead researcher on this study from Boston University School of Medicine measured body mass index, waist circumference, and scanning to evaluate the amount of belly fat.
The study showed (as has other studies) that as belly fat increased, brain volume decreased. But it also correlated with Alzheimers. Note the total body weight was correlated, just the amount of fat residing between internal organs (belly fat) so bigger is OK – fat is not.
So we all know that excess weight correlates highly to high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes; now we can add Alzheimers to that list.
One more reason to keep losing weight he says having dropped 20 pounds by exercise in the past year.
Susan Connor
December 31st, 2010
Thank you. This short consise message is what I have wanted to hear. Enough to really make me concentrate on ridding my belly fat. Not a beer drinker but am having challenges getting rid of what must be 10 kilo extra here. [Sight exageration here but figure I need an extra 10 kilo worth of brain matter with what I want to do for the rest of my life!]
Keep me posted thanks. May start a blog and record the progresses! Um sounds like an idea for mid January 2011.