Obesity Messes With the Brain Friday, March 25th, 2011 This article talks about a series of tests that were ran by scientists, to explain the how the work is affected because of obesity. Apparently obesity affects memory, thinking, and reasoning among other things done by the brain. At Kent University in Ohio, John Gunstad, ran some test on 150 obese people who weighted an average of 300 pounds, some more than the others. Two thirds were going to get a weight-loss surgery soon. The scores of the obese people were compared to the results of very healthy people in the Brain Resource Internacional Database, were most people have lived a healthy life. Results for the obese people were really low compared to the results that healthy people had, that included their memory span. After 12 weeks, when the surgery was done, and the patients had lost about 50 pounds, the test was done again. The lighter but still heavy people scored substantially better than before. But the people who had not had surgery, or lost weight, performed worse than on their first test, something that surprised Gustand. After using a MRI researchers found out that with higher levels of CRP also correlated with “with worse performance in executive function, including tests of psychomotor speed and attention.”
I think I chose this article, because I was interested by the title. I think that obesity is one of the most concerning issues that is happening mostly in the United States, but is progressively spreading around the world. Obesity leads to diseases that can cause death to a person, and is something that people should be concerned about, it could happen to anyone if they didn’t pay attention to how much they are eating, or what they are eating. I was also interested, because I didn’t know that obesity could affect your brain. After reading the article, I realized that people with obesity problems have more issues than what they appear to have. For example they are obese, and they can barely move, but they also suffer of lack of memory, of reasoning, and have problems with thinking, something that is important for everyone, no matter what you are doing.
I think I can’t really relate this to my life, because I don’t know anybody who has an obesity problem. I see people walking down the streets, who have obesity problems, and I think “how could they get to that size” I mean, like without realizing that they need to stop eating such amounts of food, or doing more exercise. But I think I can relate it to my life, because I would like to know, if there is anything that over weighted people can do to reduce their size, so their brains are not affected, because, it’s not fair, that they have to carry themselves around, but with no reasoning or way of proper thinking. I think it’s really sad, to see someone lose the control of their minds, because they suffer of obesity.
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