Belly Fat Doubles Your Risk of Dementia
This post is for all of those readers who are getting on in years and still think that carrying a “spare tire” around their middles is no big problem.
Researchers have found that women who store body-fat around their midsection (see Apple) are more than twice as likely to develop dementia when they get older.
FYI, the symptoms of dementia include:
- Progressive memory loss
- Inability to concentrate
- Decrease in problem-solving skills and judgment capability
- Confusion, severe
- Hallucinations and delusions
- Altered sensation or perception
- Impaired recognition (agnosia)
- Impaired recognition of familiar objects or persons
- Impaired recognition through the senses
- Altered sleep patterns
The Study
The research is based on the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, which was started at the end of the 1960s when almost 1,500 women between the ages of 38 and 60 underwent comprehensive examinations and answered questions about their health and lifestyle.
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A follow-up 32 years later showed that 161 women had developed dementia, with the average age of diagnosis being 75. This study shows that women who were broader around the waist than the hips in middle age ran slightly more than twice the risk of developing dementia when they got old.
Conclusion
Dementia is not a good thing.
It’s not good for the person suffering from it and it’s not good for their loved ones.
So, if you, or someone you love is shaped like an apple, do something about it.
And luckily, I just so happen to have about a million articles here on how to lose that belly-fat
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This is an off-topic comment, but figured it may be fun to see what readers think as well. I’m doing a Q&A with my weight loss group and the question came up “why is it so hard to get started exercising again once you’ve stopped?” The psychological reasons and emotional reasons behind “hard” are ones our group can tackle, where we are getting stuck is what is it that happens in the body physiologically that makes it physically difficult and from an energy standpoint at first exhausting to resume exercise?
My 2 grandmothers. One an apple, the other, a pear.
The apple had alzheimer’s/dementia, passed away 2 years ago.
The pear is lucid as can be and still thriving.
I’m a pear like the pear grandmother.
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Here’s a theory:
Belly fat is an endocrine organ that secretes oestrogen/estrogen. After menopause, progesterone secretion falls to zero. Therefore, there is too much oestrogen/estrogen relative to progesterone. This is why the use of progesterone can regenerate a degenerating brain. See Regeneration in a degenerating brain: potential of allopregnanolone as a neuroregenerative agent and Regenerative potential of allopregnanolone and Progesterone receptors: form and function in brain.
Well, damn. I’m definitely an apple.
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