Obesity is a condition that can increase the risk of heart disease and diabetes. In a recent study, obesity was also bad for the brain.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge found that obesity makes brain age is 10 years older than the brains of people who have the ideal body weight.
This research was conducted by scanning 473 20-87 year old human brain. In an obese person or a body mass index above 25, the structure of the brain looks much older or the same as the older structure.
In addition there is a shrinking part of the brain, namely the white matter in the brain. Shrinkage of the brain associated with cognitive decline and dementia. However, IQ tests there is no difference between the cognitive abilities of people who are obese and not.
With age, the human brain is shrinking, but obesity is considered to accelerate the aging brain.
"We found that people who are overweight have a volume of white matter that are smaller than those slender, depreciation is very significant," said lead researcher, doctor Lisa Ronan of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Sadaf Farooqi, of the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science in Cambridge, said research so far has not found the impact of the aging structure of the brain faster.
"This should be the starting point for us to explore more deeply the effects of weight loss, diet and exercise on the brain and memory" he said.
Obesity is not a trivial issue. Obesity must be prevented by giving children a balanced diet and regular physical activity.
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