Bigger Belly, Shrinking Brain - Each Additional Inch on Your Waist Comes With a Reduction in Gray Matter Volume
Fans of Homer Simpson knew it all along: Abdominal hypertrophy = brain atrophy. Let me just say something in advance: Neither I, nor the researchers from France, Germany and China who conducted the study at hand and found a correlation between abdominal obesity and the volume of our gray matter are suggesting that all obese men and women are dumb. What we both would probably agree on, though, is the fact that their observations do support a causal relationship between abdominal obesity and a reduced gray matter volume (GMV): "Our findings also provide some evidence that the inverse association between abdominal obesity and brain volume is particularly prominent for GMV, and that it is not mediated by vascular brain injury." (Debette. 2013) Sneak Peak #2 - SuppVersity Science Round-Up: DHEA Special! I hope you are not mad at Carl and me for not broadcasting the Science Round-Up last week. We will do our best to make it happen today - so make sure you tune in in time f...