Too Much Weight Ups Alzheimer's Risk

[LadyFunkenstein]

Since everyone is so happy to pick on smokers, I thought it was high time to shine the spotlight on another vice which is slowly killing people. Of course, here on Lit everyone turns a blind eye to it.

Too Much Weight Ups Alzheimer's Risk

By Meryl Hyman Harris
HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- People who are overweight or obese in their 40s have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life, a new study suggests.

"The implication is that keeping a healthy weight in middle age is linked to good outcomes in old age," said study author Rachel A. Whitmer, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente of Northern California.

Whitmer and other researchers are finding increasing evidence that Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia are often linked to physical, and sometimes preventable, causes.

"There has been a whole bunch of recent evidence that being overweight is bad for the brain," she said.

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[HappyMisha]

Thanks for the info LF!

 

[Fagin]

** pops some Namenda to try to remember what Alzheimer's is **

 

[Matthew Craig]

Geez, your posts suck lately.

 

[garbage can]

Since everyone is so happy to pick on smokers, I thought it was high time to shine the spotlight on another vice which is slowly killing people. Of course, here on Lit everyone turns a blind eye to it.

Hey LadyF, I'm 6 feet....175.....lean and mean for my age.

wannna feel my muscle(s)..

Oh, I can remember all the way back to yesterday...

 

[crazybbwgirl]

I forgot what I wanted to say here...

 

[KRCummings]

On a related issue...the end of The Notebook was stupid.
Those who read/saw it will understand.

 

[Traveler32]

Really? I thought it was a combination of preparing tomato soup in an aluminum sauce pan... and anal sex.

 

[HappyMisha]

On a related issue...the end of The Notebook was stupid.
Those who read/saw it will understand.

Why was it stupid?

 

[Xander]

I can't wait to see if someone is gonna be offended here.. Or someone is gonna go off on how fat people are killing themselves with grease, the same way as smokers does.

This should be good.

 

[KRCummings]

Why was it stupid?

Because that simply doesn't happen. I can believe a lot of things in a love story but an alzheimers patient suddenly having such clarity at such an opportune moment? No.

 

[KRCummings]

I can't wait to see if someone is gonna be offended here.. Or someone is gonna go off on how fat people are killing themselves with grease, the same way as smokers does.

This should be good.

They don't know it's killing them?
I'm pretty sure they do, just as smokers know.
If they get offended by facts then fuck 'em. Insults and ignorance are different of course.

 

[HappyMisha]

Because that simply doesn't happen. I can believe a lot of things in a love story but an alzheimers patient suddenly having such clarity at such an opportune moment? No.

Oh. I'd like to think it could. There is still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's... perhaps jogging someone's memory on a regular basis could help.

 

[KRCummings]

Oh. I'd like to think it could. There is still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's... perhaps jogging someone's memory on a regular basis could help.

Don't happen. It's a very romantic idea but the disease just doesn't allow for it.
Once the person reaches a certain stage then that's it. You hear once in a while about something similar but it's always bullshit. They said something about Reagan becoming clear right at the end but nobody really believed it.
The disease is too overpowering and all-encompassing.

 

[Gringao]

Really? I thought it was a combination of preparing tomato soup in an aluminum sauce pan... and anal sex.

That's ass cancer.

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean Vernon Wormer

 

[Traveler32]

That's ass cancer.

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean Vernon Wormer

Damn, wrong thread!

It was actually Dean Weirmer, and fat, drunk and stoopid is an honorable life pursuit... plus its a great hobby.

 

[Gringao]

Damn, wrong thread!

It was actually Dean Weirmer, and fat, drunk and stoopid is an honorable life pursuit... plus its a great hobby.

I thought you were right for a second, but it's really "Wormer." LINK

 

[Traveler32]

I thought you were right for a second, but it's really "Wormer." LINK

Who you gonna believe, me or John Landis?

That wasn't the Washington Times movie review link was it?

 

[Gringao]

Who you gonna believe, me or John Landis?

That wasn't the Washington Times movie review link was it?

Would I do that to you? <-- Fuck her!

 

[Modern Mephisto]

Fuck me... I knew I was at risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and stroke, but now that Alzheimer's is linked to obesity, I might seriously have to consider that being overweight is potentially unhealthy.

 

[Traveler32]

Would I do that to you? <-- Fuck her!

Ok, who played the "shoulder" devil/angel?

 

[Gringao]

Ok, who played the "shoulder" devil/angel?

You got me...no idea.

Have we hijacked this thread thoroughly yet?

 

[Traveler32]

You got me...no idea.

Have we hijacked this thread thoroughly yet?

Its a serious subject to be sure, but the woman called me fat.

I am NOT fat. I'm big boned.

 

[John Doe]

Yet another reason fat people suck. Like we needed one.

But y'know, it's like smoking. No matter how many reasons there are against it, there will still be plenty of people who still don't give a shit that they're killing themselves and disgusting everyone around them.

Assholes.

 

[Beco]

I always forget to take my Alzheimer's medicine.....