Thursday, June 16, 2022

30-year study links childhood obesity and fitness to midlife cognition

A new study of the impact of childhood fitness and obesity on cognition in middle age, followed over 1200 people who were children in 1985 for over 30 years, has found that better performance on physical tests is related to better cognition later in life and may protect against dementia in later years. Importantly these findings are not impacted by academic ability and socioeconomic status at childhood, or by smoking and alcohol consumption at midlife.

from Healthy Aging News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/fZIv9h1

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