<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d21230ec-51d9-4bc7-b722-75589f844c6f/8CF1EFD1-5776-4B15-BE1F-3C4DFF1359D9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html" href="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html" style="font-size: 11px;">iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html"> My mother has visceral fat. At her age it could be life threatening. There is no doubt this is a contributing factor to her Alzheimer's</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html">Having a large belly in middle age nearly triples the risk of developing dementia</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html"> Researchers measured the abdominal fat of 6,583 people age 40 to 45 in northern California and some 36 years later 16 percent had developed dementia</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html"> Those who were overweight or obese but did not have a pot belly had an 80 percent increase in the risk of dementia compared to people with a normal body weight and abdominal fat level</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html"> The risk increase jumped to 230 percent among <A href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=overweight%20people&sid=breitbart.com" rel="nofollow">overweight people</A> with a large belly and 360 percent among the obese with large abdomens.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html"> "Where one carries the weight -- especially in midlife -- appears to be an <A href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=important%20predictor&sid=breitbart.com" rel="nofollow">important predictor</A> for dementia risk," Whitmer said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html"> "These findings imply that the dangerous effects of abdominal obesity on the brain may start long before the signs of dementia appear."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-belly-in-middle-age-triples-risk-of.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com/img/DC96155B-B661-4724-9974-CEFC5E066DAE" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8CF1EFD1-5776-4B15-BE1F-3C4DFF1359D9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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