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| − | *''Your Miracle Brain: Maximize Your Brainpower, Boost Your Memory, Lift Your Mood, Improve Your IQ and Creativity, Prevent and Reverse Mental Aging'' by Jean Carper | + | *''Your Miracle Brain: Maximize Your Brainpower, Boost Your Memory, Lift Your Mood, Improve Your IQ and Creativity, Prevent and Reverse Mental Aging'' by Jean Carper ISBN-10: 0060183918; ISBN-13: 978-0060183912 |
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Revision as of 21:59, September 11, 2011
There are a number of suspected causes for Alzheimer's disease.[1] Weili Xu, a researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, declared: "Our results contribute to the growing evidence that controlling body weight or losing weight in middle age could reduce your risk of dementia".[2]
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Obesity in middle age may increase risk of dementia
In 2011, the website Alzheimer's Reading Room reported:
| “ | A new study from Karolinska Institute shows that overweight and obesity in midlife increases the risk of developing dementia later in life. The study, based on data from the Swedish Twin Registry, published in the American scientific journal Neurology.
The researchers analyzed data from 8534 twins 65 years of age and older. Of those, 350 people diagnosed with dementia and 114 with probable dementia. Data on weight and height were registered already, when participants were in their 30s. Participants were divided into four groups based on BMI: underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese. Obesity was defined as BMI between 25 and 30 and obesity as BMI over 30. Of the participants in the study were 2541 people, or nearly 30 percent are overweight or obese in middle age. It turned out that people who had been overweight or obese in mid-life had 80 percent increased risk of developing dementia, Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia compared with normal weight. The result remained after the researchers took into account other factors that could affect outcomes, such as education, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Of those not suffering from dementia were 26 percent overweight, and 3 percent fat. Among those who had dementia, 39 percent were overweight and seven per cent obese.[3] |
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Recommended books
- Your Miracle Brain: Maximize Your Brainpower, Boost Your Memory, Lift Your Mood, Improve Your IQ and Creativity, Prevent and Reverse Mental Aging by Jean Carper ISBN-10: 0060183918; ISBN-13: 978-0060183912
