Fat people are stupid?
22-Oct-2007, 01:38 PM
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Fat people are stupid?
http://www.health-sky.com/html/overw...ght-peers.html
A study carried out by French researchers at the Toulouse University Hospital and the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Toulouse found that adults with high BMIs (body mass indexes) obtained poorer results in cognitive and IQ tests as compared to their counterparts with normal body weights.
Writing in the Neurology Journal, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, researchers stressed the fact that overweight or obese adults and middle-aged people are exposed to high risks of brain disorders and future cognitive decline. This is why they have to be very careful about their body weight, because high BMIs may bring about mental problems along with physical ones.
Leader of the study Maxime Cournot, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Toulouse University School of Medicine in France stated: “Our results can have an additional motivational effect to modify health habits in people who are overweight. Our conclusions stress the need to implement preventive programs to control obesity before cognitive impairment, as minor as it may be.” He also added: “Our results, along with other previous studies, strongly suggest a greater risk of dementia in these (overweight) persons at middle-age.”
The study was carried out on 2,223 healthy French people - both men and women - with ages ranging between 32 and 62. The subjects had to take cognitive tests in 1996 for the first time and then again, in 2001 after a 5 year period. Findings of the study provided strong evidence that individuals with high BMIs score lower at cognitive tests than those with normal body weights. For instance, results of a test based on word memory recall proved that normal-weight people were able to recall 9 out of 16 words, while overweight individuals could only recall 7 out of 16 words.
Prof. Cournot said: “A higher BMI in 1996 was also associated with a higher cognitive decline at follow-up in 2001″. He explained that the evidence according to which overweight people receive lower scores on cognitive tests may be due to the fact that fats in their bodies build up, clog and stiffen their brain arteries: “The study’s findings may be due to a host of factors including the thickening and hardening of cerebral vessels because of obesity or possibly the development of insulin resistance.”
A study carried out by French researchers at the Toulouse University Hospital and the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Toulouse found that adults with high BMIs (body mass indexes) obtained poorer results in cognitive and IQ tests as compared to their counterparts with normal body weights.Writing in the Neurology Journal, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, researchers stressed the fact that overweight or obese adults and middle-aged people are exposed to high risks of brain disorders and future cognitive decline. This is why they have to be very careful about their body weight, because high BMIs may bring about mental problems along with physical ones.
Leader of the study Maxime Cournot, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Toulouse University School of Medicine in France stated: “Our results can have an additional motivational effect to modify health habits in people who are overweight. Our conclusions stress the need to implement preventive programs to control obesity before cognitive impairment, as minor as it may be.” He also added: “Our results, along with other previous studies, strongly suggest a greater risk of dementia in these (overweight) persons at middle-age.”
The study was carried out on 2,223 healthy French people - both men and women - with ages ranging between 32 and 62. The subjects had to take cognitive tests in 1996 for the first time and then again, in 2001 after a 5 year period. Findings of the study provided strong evidence that individuals with high BMIs score lower at cognitive tests than those with normal body weights. For instance, results of a test based on word memory recall proved that normal-weight people were able to recall 9 out of 16 words, while overweight individuals could only recall 7 out of 16 words.
Prof. Cournot said: “A higher BMI in 1996 was also associated with a higher cognitive decline at follow-up in 2001″. He explained that the evidence according to which overweight people receive lower scores on cognitive tests may be due to the fact that fats in their bodies build up, clog and stiffen their brain arteries: “The study’s findings may be due to a host of factors including the thickening and hardening of cerebral vessels because of obesity or possibly the development of insulin resistance.”
22-Oct-2007, 02:18 PM
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cognition and IQ tests have no relationship to learning. a 5 year old can do an IQ test. but because somehow IQ scores are related to age, 5 yr olds who do well can score in excess of like 200 or something... but in teenagers and up that 'bias' is gone.
i'm not saying the study proves causality, but it def shows there is a link.
i'm not saying the study proves causality, but it def shows there is a link.
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