Brains Of Overweight People Appear “10 Years Older” Than Those Of Leaner Peers, Scan Study Indicates.

“The brains of overweight people look ‘10 years older’ than those of leaner peers,” research published online in Neurobiology of Aging suggests. Researchers arrived at this conclusion after using magnetic resonance imaging to examine “the brains of 473 people aged between 20 and 87, dividing” participants “into lean and overweight categories.” .reports, “The difference” between the two groups, “scientists say, corresponds to a greater shrinkage in the volume of white matter.” The cause for that is unknown, however. It could be due “to genes causing both brain-shrinking and obesity, or it could be that changes occurring in the brain lead to overeating. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/04/brains-of-overweight-people-look-ten-years-older-than-those-of-lean-peers