Belly Fat and Dementia

Everything you read seems to be related to the infamous belly fat. There's already the link between diabetes, stroke, heart disease and the roll around the middle. (Don't forget your genes can play a part in how you carry your weight too.) Then there's stress, and menopause/hormonal issues  (what I fondly call the "men-o-pot"). Since it all started with "syndrome X" it's obvious that blood sugar imbalances play a significant part in all this, which in turn relates to how, when, and what we eat.

So guess what, now another new study relates dementia with belly fat. In fact "a Kaiser Permanente study comparing people with different levels of belly fat showed that those who had the most belly fat were 145 percent more likely to develop dementia compared with people with the least amount of belly fat!" What are your thoughts on excess weight and belly fat?

Once again, the moral of the story is that we need to lose weight. No pressure here, right? - even if we've tried to lose weight and failed a million times. (It personally took me years to lose my excess 30 pounds and keep it off.) Tomorrow I'll get into some core basics about weight loss that dieters continue to ignore and may explain why they don’t lose weight.