Article in the paper this morning said that a new study found a very strong correlation between a fat belly at age 40 and dementia later in life. You are two times more likely to have Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia if you have a big gut in your 40's than if you don't. Overall fat, or fat in other areas of the body doesn't seem to matter here. It's just the big gut. [/wet blanket]

theyre coming to take me away!

Bullshit! It's just another scare tactic.

So I'll get dementia. Not MY problem :D I think I'll use it as leverage on my kids.... behave or i'll drink another beer and be even more embarrassing when you have to look after me...

Drax, if your mom has to help you physically, then I'd say she's allowed to make comment on your weight. Other than that, find a store with online ordering and delivery ;)

Furthermore, the research is not bullshit, although it may be being used as part of a scare tactic. The correletion between belly-fat and dementia does not imply causality. It may be the belly fat causes dementia. It maybe that the first symptom of dementia is belly fat. It may be another disiease entirely which has both belly fat and dementia as symptoms. They may be completely unrelated. This research is in it's early days and discovering the relationship is merely the first step. But calling it bullshit because you don't like the potential implications is imbecilic

Oh please...I'll be the first with dementia, and skinny as a rail. Thinking of the dementia wards I worked in...naaaaah! Did you know that the most mobile people that had there stuff together enough to walk around all smoked? Just noticed that..that's all....

It's not dementia....it's being drunk. :)

I like beer more than I care that LJ and Radar are drunk. :)

I never said she had to help me physically.

Really? Because your mom helps me physically.

The following is the abstract from a recent review on this very subject in January's issue of Nature Neuroscience Reviews:

Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognition.
Hillman CH, Erickson KI, Kramer AF.

That why I said IF, mushbrain

:lol:

Ok :cool:, but the way that you said makes it seem like you think I'm completely helpless. IF that's not the case, then I apologize for my misunderstanding. Please forgive me, oh wise one. :p.

Nope. Shan't. The way you read it maybe, but the way I said it was just fine and reinforced by the alternative I offered. So there.

BITCH!!!!