Carrying excessive body fat not only puts your health a risk it also puts a big strain on your brains, according to a study published yesterday.
CNN reports that a study in the journal Neurology suggests if you’re a bit chunky around the middle then the chances are the gray matter volume in your brain has diminished somewhat.
Gray matter is important because it contains the lion’s share of your brain’s 100 billion nerve cells.
The study in question measured the body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio of 9652 people in the UK. One in five members of the study were found to be obese
The participants also had their brain volume scanned via an MRI. After accounting for other factors which could reduce gray matter volume such as smoking and high blood pressure the researchers found that those with above average numbers on both BMI and waist-to-hip ratio had the lowest gray matter volume.
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