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Body Fat And Brain Shrinkage: Obesity May Put Even Your Brain Health Into A Vicious Cycle

Body Fat, Obesity And Brain Shrinkage, A Vicious Cycle:
Weight loss is something that comes with a lot of challenges and motivations.

Most of which starts with looking better, and maybe eventually even feeling better.

And while many of us just assume that excess bodyfat is an unsightly-inconvenience,

Science is finding out that it’s a lot more problematic than just looks.

And if you need to lose fat, then the study by Ilona Dekkers at the University of Leiden will make you want to put your running-shoes right on,

Because excess-bodyfat affects a lot more than just your looks…

Bodyfat in excess as tissue seems to work against us when in sufficient quantities, according to this article in Wired.

For a long time, doctors thought that fat was just inert “insulation” for lack of a better term.

But recently, they’ve discovered that bodyfat is actually very active,

And it’s actually more like its own giant endocrine-gland that throws off all kinds of hormones.

Many of the problems arise because fat doesn’t really…