Comments on: Metabolic Syndrome and Cognitive Decline

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:51:19 +0000

Moderation is the key

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By: Heather Worthington

Heather Worthington — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:18:41 +0000

Wow thsi is mind blowing. Shows that the body is holistic organism everything impacts somewhere or everywhere else. . Metabolic syndrome is a concept not widely known about or discussed in the UK like it is in the USA. Yet the UK is second to the USA in terms of obesity and the follow on health issues that obesity causes. Metabolic syndrome is something that can be diagnosed almost with the naked eye – waist size – yet we ignore it. We try to promote awareness of it in the UK as part of our website http://www.checkmybody.co.uk/MetabolicSyndrome.htm. I will update our content to reflect this important aspect of impacts on cognitive abilities.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:56:16 +0000

These effects are huge.

When I used to test older adults’ cognitive abilities I could predict which adults were going to have memory impairments just by knowing if they had diabetes.

If you have diabetes, be very careful about your diet!