Maintaining Normal Weight and Other Key Health Factors Affect Brain Function

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Nutritious dietary intake and maintaining
healthy weight is good for your brain…
Eating a healthy diet and maintaining a normal weight helps protect your brain, according to a 10-year study of 6,401 British civil servants.
Participants in the study (initially ages 39-63) were less likely to have impaired cognitive function if they were not overweight or obese.
Those with multiple markers of “metabolic abnormality” were more likely to suffer impaired cognitive function; these markers included high cholesterol or triglycerides, high blood pressure, low HDL (good) cholesterol, high glucose levels or diabetes.
In followup mental testing at the 5 and 10-year points, those who were both obese and “metabolically abnormal” were significantly more likely to show a faster rate of cognitive decline.
Researchers speculated that vascular problems associated with unhealthy weight might affect brain function, along with specific fat-related secretions that impact the aging brain.
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