Your Weight And IQ Are Related
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 16, 2006 at 1:30:47 PM
Not that IQ really tests how smart you actually are, but it seems that fatter people have less IQ than thinner people. Most people that are worried about their weight are smarter it seems.
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The new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults claims to have found a link between obesity and the decline in a person's cognitive function. The research, conducted by French scientists, which is published in this month's Neurology journal, involved men and women aged between 32 and 62 taking four mental ability tests that were then repeated five years later. The researchers found that people with a Body Mass Index - a measure of body fat - of 20 or less could recall 56 percent of words in a vocabulary test, while those who were obese, with a BMI of 30 or higher, could remember only 44 percent.