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Mad Belly
by West Virginia Rebel

So this explains Michael Moore.

NEW YORK (AP) - Having a big belly in your 40s can boost your risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia decades later, a new study suggests.

It’s not just about your weight. While previous research has found evidence that obesity in middle age raises the chances of developing dementia later, the new work found a separate risk from storing a lot of fat in the abdomen. Even people who weren’t overweight were susceptible.

That abdominal fat, sometimes described as making people apple-shaped rather than pear-shaped, has already been linked to higher risk of developing diabetes, stroke and heart disease.

“Now we can add dementia to that,” said study author Rachel Whitmer of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif.

She and others report the findings in Wednesday’s online issue of the journal Neurology.

Mikey got his dimentia early on, but it looks like Lee lucked out when he had his surgery.

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 03/26/08 at 07:18 PM (Discuss this in the forums)

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Posted by Hal_10000 on 03/26/08 at 09:01 PM from United States

i suspect they are mistaking correlation for causation.

Posted by Miguelito on 03/26/08 at 11:32 PM from United States

Hal.. yeah, it’s probably another thing where the types of choices and such that lead to the larger belly, also tend to lead to dementia.

Like the recent articles about how drinking even diet soda could lead to being obese… but if you read the fine print, it was just that those that tended to drink a lot of soda (even diet) also had bad habits otherwise that lead to being overweight.

Posted by on 03/27/08 at 06:34 AM from United States

Having a big belly in your 40s

Glad I didn’t get mine until the 50s....:)

Posted by dwex on 03/27/08 at 10:13 AM from United States

This explains my failing memory…

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