Use whatever name you like… abdominal fat… a spare tire… love handles… muffin top… a new study has found that excess belly fat may actually cause your brain to shrink and increase your dementia risk. We already know that belly fat ups the risk of heart attack and heart disease. According to researchers deep belly fat, known to medicine as visceral fat, is the real culprit, and while earlier work has linked belly fat and dementia, most of those studies (except for one in 2008) have had fewer than 300 subjects. Read more

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