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Gia
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posted April 29, 2005 12:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Gia     Edit/Delete Message
Dementia Risk In Old Age
Linked To Obesity
By Celia Hall
The Telegraph - UK
4-29-5

Obesity in middle-aged women greatly increases the risk of dementia in later life, according to a study today.

The research, involving more than 10,000 men and women over 27 years, finds that the risk of dementia increases by 75 per cent among the obese in general but by 200 per cent in obese women. In men and women who are merely overweight the increase is 35 per cent.

The researchers, from the Kaiser Permanente health care organisation in Oakland, California, initially thought the rise could be explained by increased susceptibility to heart disease and diabetes, which are linked to dementia.

But, as they say today in the online British Medical Journal, that was not the case. They now speculate that fatness could have a direct effect on the way nerve cells degrade.

One study uses obese rats deficient in the protein leptin, which tells the brain how much fat there is in the body. It finds that they were impaired when performing a type of memory task.

The study, believed to be the first to show the association, warns that failure to stem the obesity epidemic could mean more people suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease in later life.

Dr Rachel Whitmer, who led the work, said yesterday that "we are about to see an unprecedented increase in dementia as baby boomers age".

She added that there was a "dose effect", with the overweight as well as the obese having an increased risk of suffering from dementia as they age.

However, she pointed out that "this is something people can do something about".

The study collects information on 10,276 Kaiser Permanente members between 1964 to 1973, when they were aged 40-45. By 1994, dementia was diagnosed in 713 of the participants, seven per cent.

Men and women with the highest obesity measurements have a 60 to 70 per cent greater risk of dementia than those with the lowest.

In Britain more than half of the adult population is overweight or obese. Obesity in adult women nearly trebled between 1980 and 2002 from eight per cent to 23 per cent and nearly quadrupled in men over the same period, from six to 22 per cent.

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SunChild
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posted April 29, 2005 06:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
I've always felt that dimentia is an unconscious choice.

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sue g
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posted May 01, 2005 12:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sue g     Edit/Delete Message
I think obesity can account for a lot of health problems, especially around "heart" issues. Hey guys I better start shedding those pounds before I draw my pension (ha ha) xx

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Gia
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posted May 01, 2005 02:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Gia     Edit/Delete Message
SunChild is that not true of all disease?
I tend to think that when a disease becomes physically manifest is when most people become conscious of it.

Have you read anthing on the work of Dr. Steven Lewis and Aim? Well he is a well known doctor but has been bullied into giving up his medical practice due to his so called 'unconventional' work.

Steven's work has shown that a virus for instance can intentionally hide or disguise itself. Cells we know are intelligent and they do have memory. They can be changed energetically when forced to become conscious before they manifest in the physical as disease.


Gia

SunChild this is really weird, I've had to write this four times as in the middle of my typing it just erased itself . My feeling is it does not want to be seen. It wants to hide perhaps?

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SunChild
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posted May 01, 2005 07:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
Indeed all dis-ease is.
I've never heard of Dr. Steven Lewis, but his name does ring a bell.
I might read up on it though, I am really intruiged.

That is weird, I have had posts do that to me before, and I say 'oh well' maybe it doesn't want to be seen!
But anyway, I am so interested in the ways we can consciously control our cells, I think we underestimate their intelligence.
Hmmm, alot to think about!

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Philbird
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posted May 01, 2005 11:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philbird     Edit/Delete Message
I'm on the AIM program, and I have noticed changes in my attitude as my "life force" returns. More positive things and synchronicities are happening. Also, sometimes out of the blue, I'll experience a serious crash in attitude which I believe is a resistance to a healing energy, or detox. I just have to remind myself of that.

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Randall
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posted May 02, 2005 01:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message

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