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A new study links early childhood obesity to lower IQ scores

Author:     Annabelle Timsit
Source:     Quartz
Publication Date:     25 May 2018
 Link: A new study links early childhood obesity to lower IQ scores
Stephan:   To quote the American Heart Association, "For 6–11 year old children, the prevalence of obesity increased from 4.0 percent in 1971–74 to 18.0 percent in 2009–10. The prevalence of overweight in adolescents ages 12–19 increased from 6.1 percent to 18.4 percent." That has all kinds of health implications, but that's not the end of it. According to new research, obesity in childhood results in those boys and girls having lower IQs for life. Obesity is literally creating a stupider less capable less healthy population.  Compliant easily manipulated sheep, who can be milked for money by the Illness Profit System throughout their lives. I see this as an aspect of the Neo-feudalism Trend.

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Childhood obesity comes with a myriad of health risks, ranging from increased risk of heart disease and cancer to asthma and type 2 diabetes. A new study shows how obesity can have an impact on children’s cognitive development as well.

The study, conducted by epidemiologists at Brown University and published in the journal Obesity, found a link between children’s weight in the first two years of life and their cognitive abilities at school age. According to the study authors, “children on the threshold of obesity or overweight in the first two years of life had lower perceptual reasoning and working memory scores than lean children when tested at ages five and eight.” (The link between weight and working memory was only true for boys, however.) The study also found that overweight or obese children were more likely to have lower IQ scores.

Obesity, which can deregulate certain types of hormones and cause inflammation in the brain, has long been known to be associated with lower cognition in adults, including how they […]

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