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EARTHDATE: May 10, 2015

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REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU BEING OVERWEIGHT WAS GOOD FOR YOU!

by Hazed

Good news for those with ample proportions such as myself: a new study shows that being overweight reduces the risk of dementia.

This is very surprising, and it goes against all the current health advice.

Researchers analysed nearly two million British people aged 55, looking at their medical records for up to two decades. The results showed that those who were overweight had an 18% reduction in dementia when compared to those of a normal weight – and for the obese the reduction is 24%.

What’s more, they showed that underweight people had a 39% greater risk of dementia compared to a so-called healthy weight.

Of course, as you can expect, we are being told that these findings are not to be used as an excuse to overeat. Even if there is some protection from dementia, there’s plenty of other bad things that can happen if you are overweight – heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some cancers – and these could finish you off before you age enough to benefit from the dementia protection!

Still, it is yet another indication that what constitutes a healthy lifestyle may not be as straight-forward as we thought.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32233571

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