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INTERESTING ARTICLE I RECENTLY READ ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF WEIGHT LOSS (HENCE THE BENEFITS OF EXERCISE, LIKE WARRIOR WALKING

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WASHINGTON — Older women hoping to keep their minds young should keep an eye on the scale — researchers have found a link between slowing down mentally and piling on the pounds.

For every extra point gained on a scale of obesity, scores in reasoning, memory and other mental skills fell, Dr. Diana Kerwin of Northwestern University in Chicago and colleagues found.

“What we found is that actually obesity in and of itself is an independent risk factor for declining cognitive performance,” Kerwin said in a telephone interview.

She used data from the Women’s Health Initiative, an ongoing national study of illness and death among older American women. She compared women’s body mass index, or BMI, a measure of obesity commonly used by doctors and researchers, to their results on a test that measured their mental sharpness.

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