Are fat guys stupid because they're fat or are they fat because they're stupid? I've also been known to ask the question why so many people, predisposed to cancer, smoke. Give me a study without a control group and I will make your correlations do whatever dance you want them to.
Gotta agree with Dennis--I think men who are both "seriously overweight" and health-conscious enough to participate in a heart study, but do nothing about the former, probably would be of lower-than-normal intelligence. The same could probably be said of chain-smokers who participate in lung health studies. Cheers,
I think the study indicates that the rate of cognitive loss was faster for obese men than for non-obese men. This study has been going on since 1975. Interestingly, there was no such correlation for women. Eat away, ladies!
I think the reality may be that the incidence of obeseness relates directly to the rate of cognitive loss.
Yes, OK I got it. It would be interesting to know how cognitive loss correlates with how fat the participants were originally in 1975 versus how it correlates with weight change since 1975. Now where did I leave my fries...
Re: Sorry, but I can't resist this one . . . You can't resist a gratuitous, unfunny remark? Gee, that's news. Punk.
Lessee...William Howard Taft...Daniel Pinkwater...who else? Nosborne, JD (who could stand to lose forty pounds!)
Hey, I get to write "the Buddha" and "Anna Nicole Smith" in the same sentence, for the first and last time. Orson Welles, Raymond Burr, the Venus de Willendorf.
M. Licinius Crassus, Manuel Azana (with that little thing on the n), Leon Blum, John XXIII, Louis Botha, Paul Kruger, Charles Spurgeon, King Ferdinand, R.B.Bennett, Trygve Lie.
I'd speculate that being significantly underweight is also statistically correlated with cognitive deficits. Drug abuse, alcoholism, poor childhood nutrition and a host of other medical conditions would be factors. So, bottom line, the health of the nervous system is probably positively correlated with all kinds of measures of the health of the rest of the body.
