Link: Obese People Have ‘Severe Brain Degeneration’

A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today.

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.”

Sounds pretty serious, and easily prevented if you ask me. Then again, how the hell are we supposed to abide by every study that comes out, when I read the results of a dozen every day? Doomed to fail.