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...middle-aged is well known, but this study shows it may also contribute to the neuro-degenerative diseases of late life. The good news is that simple interventions now--such as controlling cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, getting checked for diabetes and dropping even a few of those extra pounds--can keep your body and your mind healthier for years to come. --With reporting by Miriam Falco/Atlanta...
Carrying too much weight--particularly around the belly--increases your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Shedding the extra pounds will make you healthier--if you shed them the right way. Liposuction, a quick and increasingly popular way to lose weight, may not necessarily do the trick. Researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine described the plight of 15 obese women, each of whom had about 20 lbs. of abdominal fat surgically removed. Three months later, none of the women showed any improvement in insulin sensitivity, cholesterol level, blood pressure or other risk factors...
...Centers for Disease Control calculated that planes burned 350 million gal. more fuel in 2000--at an additional cost of $275 million--than they would have if passengers had weighed on average 10 lbs. less. There's no plan to charge people by the pound--as they do for extra-heavy luggage--but double-width passengers are sometimes asked to buy two seats. --By Sora Song
Controlling weight is also vital. The body tunes and retunes a lot of dials to keep its blood pressure balanced, and obesity twists those knobs in all the wrong ways. For one thing, increased body mass means higher blood volume, straining the circulatory system. Carrying extra weight also causes the heart to overwork--no favor to a left ventricle that may already be enlarged. Additionally, people who are overweight generally don't get that way eating fruits, vegetables and lean meats; their diet tends to be high in salt, fats and processed foods, just the things hypertension feasts...
...accuracy improved 60% to 70% after six minutes of practice. When subjects who learned the sequence in the morning were retested 12 hours later, they hadn't significantly improved. But when those who learned the sequence in the evening were retested following a night's sleep, they were an extra 15% to 20% faster and 30% to 40% more accurate...