{"id":26980,"date":"2009-08-26T18:21:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/26\/fat-body-not-fat-head\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T18:21:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T18:21:59","slug":"fat-body-not-fat-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/fat-body-not-fat-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Body = Not Fat Head?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today.<\/p>\n<p>Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to think about this yet.  It would be nice to know more about the proximate mechanisms.  I&#8217;m guessing this is a cardio-vascular thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/25\/obese-people-have-severe-_n_268910.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>hat tip: Natalie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today. Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years I don&#8217;t know what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/fat-body-not-fat-head\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fat Body = Not Fat Head?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-71a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}