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Belly Fat and Your Brain Belly Fat Can Damage Your Brain and Linked to Cognitive Problems in Elderly

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Belly Fat and Your Brain : Belly Fat Can Damage Your Brain and Linked to Cognitive Problems in Elderly.

Your brain shrinks with every pound of bellyfat you gain.

And what’s more, did you know that a quick way to know if your brain is healthy is to look at your skin?

A study of over 8,000 people has revealed that saggy skin and eye bags are a direct reflection of the condition of your brain.

 Not saying this to scare you, but it’s certainly good to know that reasons for you to lose fat go way above and beyond just getting a six pack. This stuff also affects your mental function, and thus your productivity, your relationships and your motivation.

But don’t worry, it turns out that most brain issues are completely reversible with simple dietary changes
Belly fat cells release pro-inflammatory molecules. These trouble-causing molecules “travel” from the belly fat to your brain, where they initiate and promote brain inflammation. This causes brain shrinkage. Especially in your gray matter, the home to your appetite control center. Less gray matter then alters your ability to control your appetite. With less, yet more inflamed gray matter, it’s more challenging to feel more “mindful” or in touch with yourself from the neck downward.

Intra-abdominal nasty fat is also known as visceral fat, or a pot belly or beer belly.

Belly fat, capable of releasing pro-inflammatory molecules, is being linked to an increased risk of heart disease, type-2 diabetes, abnormal and elevated blood fats, smaller brain volume, and poorer appetite regulation. And perhaps even to less ability to live mindfully (at least as much as one might intend).

This does not mean that all obese people are dumb. But their physiology is potentially working against their portion control will power. Research shows that for every additional inch on the human waist, there is a significant reduction in gray matter volume. Studies also suggest that if you do a lot of other things right, like exercise and food choices, you can minimize this damage.
Excess sugar intake, excessive alcoholic beverages, sedentary lifestyles, and waning sex steroid hormones are all linked to smaller brain volumes. McGill University won the coveted Kurt Richter award in 2008 by showing that seniors have smaller brain hippocampal volumes. Demonstrated by MRI imaging, this shrinkage could be healthfully reversed when the women were given estrogen replacement and males were given testosterone replacement. This brain shrinkage reversal happened rapidly, within weeks.

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