link between belly fat & dementia, page 1

Oh, I don't know (regarding this new theory).

Used to be an older couple lived across the road from us. He was a Justice of the Peace. Very disciplined. Spent half an hour each morning and night exercising fairly vigorously. He was about 6' 2" and all muscle and bone. Been like that all his life, his wife said. Man of few words. Sharp mind. Never carried any fat.

We bumped into the wife a decade or so later. Very sad. Her husband had senile decay, she said. Sometimes he was lucid and at other times, alarming .. as when he undertook (in his 70's) to climb up the 60 to 70 foot tree in their back yard to lop off the top twenty feet or so. He'd come crashing down through the branches and required hospitalization. His wife was postponing the inevitable, she said. Didn't want to put him in a nursing home, but he was becoming too much for her to handle.

Another elderly lady we knew had been fairly fat-free her entire life. Ate healthily, kept active and fit. But in her late 70's her mind began to go and within a year or so her family put her in a nursing home for her own safety.

These theories seem to come and go, don't they ? For example, a year or so ago, the experts were claiming that altzheimers was caused by the massive amounts of information people were required to process (largely unawares) .. sensory input from billboards, tv and other advertising, for example. Can't remember the exact number of advertisements it was claimed people were exposed to each day, but it was in the thousands.

Senility isn't new, although some of the words to describe it are. But all through history, a percentage of older people have lost their ability to process things in the normal way and have been described as senile, to varying degrees. Others make it to the end with their minds as clear as a bell. There's most likely a genetic element involved, as well as toxins in the environment and food, water, air, etc.

Typical of the experts to place the blame on the victims.

Didn't the adage use to be 'Fair, fat and forty ' ? And what about the famous 'middle-age spread' ? Putting on a bit of weight in middle age is reasonably 'normal' and not everyone who's done so has ended up becoming senile.

So, it's a theory. Another one. Guess next week there will be another.

Nothing wrong with working to eliminate excess weight however. But everything in moderation.

Just occurred to me ... do vegans and vegetarians evade senile decay ?

Study Links Middle-Age Belly Fat to Dementia