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October 17, 2006
The greater your weight, the lower your IQ, say scientists
Sheesh! Now they say fat *is*....
The new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults claims to have found a link between obesity and the decline in a person's cognitive function.
The research, conducted by French scientists, which is published in this month's Neurology journal, involved men and women aged between 32 and 62 taking four mental ability tests that were then repeated five years later.
The researchers found that people with a Body Mass Index - a measure of body fat - of 20 or less could recall 56 per cent of words in a vocabulary test, while those who were obese, with a BMI of 30 or higher, could remember only 44 per cent.
The fatter subjects also showed a higher rate of cognitive decline when they were retested five years later: their recall dropped to 37.5 per cent, whereas those with a healthy weight retained their level of recall.
Source: Telegraph | News | The greater your weight, the lower your IQ, say scientists
Posted by Anandasim at October 17, 2006 07:03 PM
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Is cognitive recall an indication of IQ? Not so sure about that. And maybe they should have given the overweight subjects something to eat before they tested them the second time. They were probably famished, poor things, and were fixated on a nourishing Tim Tam or something. I'm much brighter when I've had a Scotch Finger biscuit, for instance.
Posted by: cw at October 17, 2006 08:03 PM
My large, old cumbersome body couldn't agree more.
Posted by: SueW at October 19, 2006 02:08 PM