According to new research, obese seniors have less brain tissue than elderly individuals of normal weight.  Overweight people may run a heightened risk to develop Alzheimer’s.  Read the research findings in this article from HealthDay.

“The brains of obese people looked 16 years older than their healthy counterparts while [those of] overweight people looked 8 years older,” said UCLA neuroscientist Paul Thompson, senior author of a study published online in Human Brain Mapping.

Much of the lost tissue was in the frontal and temporal lobe regions of the brain, the seat of decision-making and memory, among other things.

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