New Study Links Obesity And Poor Memory
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So pervasive and so widely reported upon is the problem, that most Americans have likely become numb to the country’s horrendous obesity stats. Although we know that there’s an incredibly long list of health concerns tied to obesity, we don’t bat an eye when we hear that 35% of Americans are obese, or that obesity related medical expenses cost Americans about $147 billion per year.
Thus, when researchers at Cambridge University uncover a link between obesity and poor memory, this troubling news may hardly even sink in for most. But perhaps we should even be more concerned than normal when these researchers find that test subjects with a higher BMI performed more poorly on a memory-based game.
By now, we’ve all been exposed to enough obesity-related news to implicitly understand the link between obesity and, say, heart disease. That just makes sense to us. But obesity and poor memory? It’s a little easier for the layman to make that connection intuitively.
And that’s good, because it reminds us that even though we think we know how bad the obesity epidemic is — even though we’ve become numb — obesity is hurting us in ways we didn’t even realize.
Read more at Cambridge University.
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