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Obesity Reduces Brain Network

For all we know, will continue as overweight or obesity, diabetes and heart disease. But the latest research at UCLA has one, that is, the preponderance also make quick damage brain tissue.

On the basis of examination of 94 people aged 70 and overweight. Those who are obese, 8 percent of them had degenerative faster than normal. “Sometimes when degenartif of brain scanners, like to say that his brain seemed 16 years, “said study chairman Paul Thompson is professor of nervous is UCLA.

Although the category of those who signed a fat, 4 per cent of them experienced a reduction in brain tissue. This is the same as the brain ages of 8 years. When the brain loses the network or degenerative brain Alzheimer’s disease may be the next remains a mystery.

The brain tissue, where they picked? Thomson said that the temporal lobe of which is to say, our heart to listen, to give the perception and memory. Then a portion of the cingulate gyrus is in the middle or care function that we can concentrate on one thing. A part of the brain, the hippocampus also reduces the network is a partnership that is central, and basal ganglia, which is a key regulator of the circulation.

The study, published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, also occur when the brain has a network of these pieces are in danger in other brain diseases tection. “In other words, the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart not only alone, but brain aging occurs even faster.” So no more excuses, not with a balanced diet, which is equipped with sports facilities more