I am going to post a series of logs for you in the next few
days. They are all taken from an article
in today’s Guardian ‘Matter over mind’.
I am doing this because you might have heard about a report that tells
us that being overweight doesn’t matter.
Well, that’s not quite the case, so I am going to give you the most up
to date info on that and I also want to let you know why its worth bothering to
exercise and to eat healthily.
The longer we live, the more likely we are to develop
dementia, there is no cure and it will usually manifest as impaired memory and
possibly other symptoms such as reduced language, poor spatial awareness and
loss of function. The best course of
action is prevention and we are going to have a look at what the most recent
research shows us.
Watch your Body Mass
Index (BMI)
You may have read of the report in the Lancet that said that
being underweight in later life increases the risk of dementia. However, the interpretation of this has been
challenged and that some of this is dependent on when dementia is diagnosed
(and how accurately) – the more balanced view from Gustafson from the State
University of New York is that it is best not to be either under nor obese in
middle age
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