Fat belly linked with increased dementia
Stomach fat increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease and new research has found that it can also influence brain power.
A study in the journal Neurology reported that people with the fattest stomachs were nearly three times more likely to develop dementia than people with the least amount of stomach fat.
It was found that reduction of stomach fat during middle age could lower this dementia risk after researchers measured the abdominal fat of 6,583 people aged 40 to 45 and subsequently found in later tests that 16% of the ageing ‘fatty’ participants had been diagnosed with dementia. Having a fat stomach actually increased the risk of dementia regardless of overall body weight.
