So it's announced today that if you are a middle aged fat bastard then you are more at risk of getting Alzheimers disease. If you keep a healthy weight it seems to be the best way to avoid accelerated mental decline.
Now this doesn't sound quite right to me. Not just because chances are that those conducting the studies are young, fit, and ideal-weight researchers who couldn't bear the thought of getting Alzheimers as they get older - and probably larger !! Perhaps they just want to reassure themselves. Could it simply be another chicken and egg thing ?? Does it follow that if you are a thin-bastard you are less likely to get Alzheimers ?
How do people put on weight in the first instance? Well several ways I suppose. Could it be what they eat, and maybe their lifestyle, even their job, that is responsible for the apparent greater risk and not just their size ? If so then fat, thin, or medium....it might happen to you.
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