As Waistlines Widen, Brains Shrink

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Would like to know the duration, population & numbers sampled and some of the constructs of the study to see if there are other validating data or studies.

Charles of FL 6:39PM July 08, 2012

Would like to know the duration, population & numbers sampled and some of the constructs of the study to see if there are other validating data or studies.

Charles of FL 6:37PM July 08, 2012

Reevaluate your journalistic ethics.

Jenny Cakes of OK 10:10PM October 05, 2009

Thanks for the chuckles.
I've been to Ohio and I've seen the women you talk about. They've tried the french fry diet, the Supersize Me diet, the 'all you can eat buffet' diet and the 'everything I can stuff down my face plus a diet coke' diet.
Now go eat a couple of pounds of oreos to make yourself feel better.
(You know you're going to)

paul of NC 12:18PM August 27, 2009

If you enjoy a good browbeating, belittling, discrimination and bullying, good for you. You categorize all fat people as,
"...an endless sea of self-indulgent, self-destructive tubbies running up HUGE health care bills keeping their HUGE bodies lumbering and sweating, and plodding along everywhere one looks!!!"
I know quite a number of people, especially women who have undergone Bariatric surgery because they have tried every diet and weight-loss program known, and it didn't work for them. Then there are 'chunky' people who are probably at least as healthy as you.
There are young girls and now boys who are anorexic because of attitudes like yours.
Discrimination by any group, opinion or rationalization of 'what's good for me is good for everyone' is still discrimination.
Incidentally, I have and do try to keep myself in good physical condition. I do it because I have deemed it best for me, not because some do-gooder is on a mission to change the world.
I do believe honest education, an environment where nutritious food available (think ghettos) and the idea that if you're not skinny you're not healthy would do much more for the obesity problem than a bully like you.
I’m done, this is my final comment. Now, do your good deed for the day - go out and find a little fat girl and make her cry.

HB of OH 11:35AM August 27, 2009

I thought this study was very interesteing, let alone very important.
However, the contrary hypothesis that the brain's malfunction causes obesity was not discussed fully.
What if there were genetic/developmental factors which may lead to a smaller / underdeveloped brain that cause the overweight / obesity syndrome?

Paz of NY 11:26AM August 27, 2009

Dear HB: Fat is NOT the 'current buzz' - it is a national disgrace. When I was a fat kid, I WAS treated like 'a leper to be avoided'. THANK GOD FOR THAT because it motivated me to lose weight, get healthy and keep the weight off for the rest of my life!! I wish YOUR attitude would fall out of favor and fat people would start to be continually ridiculed and humiliated again!! Then maybe we could once again become a country where there would be more than an occasional fit, attractive person to admire, instead of an endless sea of self-indulgent, self-destructive tubbies running up HUGE health care bills keeping their HUGE bodies lumbering and sweating, and plodding along everywhere one looks!!!

paul of NC 9:49AM August 27, 2009

Fat is the current buzz so any study, no matter if it is full of holes or lacks credulity is news to be taken seriously. The pity is the real message - punish fat people, beat them into submission. Judge them as dumb, lacking in self-control, treat them as lepers to be avoided.
We live in a society of judgmental ugly people. Tolerance and critical thinking has been overridden by bias and ignorance. Pretty and stupid (we see that constantly on CNN) is acceptable.
Articles like this are less about health, more about social ills.

HB of OH 6:24AM August 27, 2009

Other side of the waistline vs. brain is that bigger brain doesn't do much good and the wide waistline people seem to be happier?.

Young Ha of AK 7:16PM August 26, 2009

Obesity like homosexuality is not a disease according to the new Diagnostic and Statistical model. So care must be taken when making slippery slope statements like this. Also this research is not really valid as causality and effect is not really evidenced here. Did the small brain causse the person to put on weight, or is it the other way around!

Golda McLaug of PA 5:22PM August 26, 2009