Comments on: Fat Belly Linked To Dementia

Having A Big Belly In Middle Age Raises Risk For Alzheimer's Decades Later, Study Says

[dronemonk]

CBS''s science coverage has been atrocious of late. Sensational to a fault.

[proserpine1]

zertat, I know what you''re saying.But this is not a study *proving* cause and efect and it certainly does not claim to know the reasons or the direction the disease of dmentia and alzheimers takes.
All it does is one ting--it describes a finding-that there is a correlation between big stomachs/abdomens and later dementia.
If you notice it doesn''t state why exactly this is so, or how it all works.
The truth is , like another poster here contributed,it could be the *adictives* in all the excess food.
It oculd ahve somethig to do with meat processing, or even fat procesing --for that matter processing in the plant or the human body!
I do agree with you that the article might have inluded that more studoes to control for many and varied factors would ahve to be done --and done many times before any definite conclusions can be drawn.
I know that to be true, I think you do too.
The article is rather short, and simply brought to the public''s attention that there is a new finding in obesity, (especially one''s stomach size!), and dementia later in life.
This newstory isn''t appropriate for a medical journal, but it isn''t really bad science I don''t think.

[m4surveys]

You''ll never see a belly like that on a vegetarian!
http://www.naturalhealthgroup.org

[brianbwb-2009]

"Now what about the female ones?" Posted by IRLiberal

Most likely no difference, but since Republicans are by nature regressive types, we fortunately haven''t had the displeasure of finding out.

[brianbwb-2009]

High belly measurement and increased dementia, if we assume some truth to this correlation, is it not possible that high belly measurements also correlate to the amount of, and what people eat, and that there might be substances in the additives to the food that might cause dementia?

Check out the artificial sweetener aspartame, for example, and see what it does to kidneys. Check out MSG, see what it does for people prone to stroke. Eat a can of Pringles, and see what it does to your bowels.

[estabwary]

Many Alzheimer''s patients forget to eat...

[irliberal]

"Fat Belly Linked To Dementia"

Well that explains the war and all the male republicans.

Now what about the female ones?

[zertrat]

This is incredibly bad science. Correlation does not equal causation. Belly fat cleans out or does not clean out substances that hurt the brain? Try wild guessing on the part of lab nerds who know nothing about physiology. this is either bad science combined with bad journalism, or just incredibly bad science without the help of bad journalists. This is like saying that priests who participate in easter egg hunts are more likely to bugger children than are men of the average population (a true correlation, by the way).