Research funded by the National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Center for Research Resources, and the American Heart Association has concluded the following: Obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals. Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years. That’s a big loss of tissue and it depletes your cognitive reserves, putting you at much greater risk of Alzheimer’s and other diseases that attack the brain,” said Thompson. “But you can greatly reduce your risk for Alzheimer’s, if you can eat healthily and keep your weight under control.” More than 300 million worldwide are now classified as obese, according to the World Health Organization. Another billion are overweight. The main cause, experts say: bad diet, including an increased reliance on highly processed foods. Obesity packs many negative health effects, including increased risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and some cancers. Read the full story at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090825/sc_livescience/obesepeoplehaveseverebraindegeneration
Give your children a head start by learning healthy habits now! Don’t wait until there is already a health issue, don’t sit there until there is already a weight problem. We must teach our children good habits now, before these issues come up. It’s the least we can do as parents. However, if you already have a child with a weight problem…get on the ball. It’s never to late to make healthy changes. Let Mini and Me: Learing Healthy Habits help get you and your family on the way to a healthy and fun lifestyle. As a community, as parents, we can help each other make these changes. We need healthy kids for a healthy future!
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