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Good reason to keep losing the weight: Obesity poses 'dementia time bomb' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22479049

This is a very sobering read - I lost my beloved grandpa and my lovely Mil to this awful disease. My grandpa was a very tall, spare Aberdonian, ate a traditional Scots diet (porridge, herring, meat and two veg - granny was a great cook!) and my Mil ate a very healthy diet of olive oil, loads of fresh fruit and veg, yogurt and not a lot of meat. They were both fit and active, physically and mentally, and my mil was petite and wiry. There are many, many factors involved in dementia but this has made me more determined to get down to the healthy BMI range.

I'm sure that obesity is the cause of many ills. I also lost my mil to end stage dementia - she was never overweight and spent her life eating low cholesterol diet.

You can protect yourself, but nothing is ever guaranteed.

Have to admit that's what brought me to 5:2, my dad has vascular dementia and Alzheimer's mix and I'd like to do as much as I can to avoid it. In dads case he was always pretty slim and fit, it was heart trouble through stress, then subsequent TIAs that look to have caused the vascular dementia. Would he be worse if he'd never looked after himself? Can't find the link at the min, but read somewhere that some researchers want to call dementia type 3 diabetes for the brain as so many people will develop it.

Very sobering thought, my Mother had Dementia but actually died from breast cancer aged 85. I have had the breast cancer so I want to try as best as I can not to also develop Dementia & hope 5:2ing will help as well as the weight loss of course.

This is why I will never abandon this wol, even if this proves to be incorrect at least I'm doing my body a HUGE favour by keeping slim and active as I gallop into old age.

Ballerina x

Can't find the link at the min, but read somewhere that some researchers want to call dementia type 3 diabetes for the brain as so many people will develop it.

Hi Jude,

Found this Type 3 Diabetes Attacks Your Brain? hope it's of interest

Peter

Thanks Peter! I'll send that onto bird I know at the local Alzheimer's Soc, see if she knows any more research on it