{"id":3676,"date":"2015-04-10T00:46:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T00:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/does-midlife-obesity-protect-against-dementia\/"},"modified":"2015-04-10T00:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T00:46:30","slug":"does-midlife-obesity-protect-against-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/10\/does-midlife-obesity-protect-against-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Does midlife obesity protect against dementia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/does-midlife-obesity-protect-against-dementia-232835758.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/7bbec9fea9cb748032473fcafc6c50f2f333f904.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"A long-term study found people who are obese in middle age run a lower risk of developing dementia later, challenging the prevailing wisdom\" align=\"left\" title=\"A long-term study found people who are obese in middle age run a lower risk of developing dementia later, challenging the prevailing wisdom\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>People who are obese in middle age run a lower risk of developing dementia later, said a large and long-term study Friday whose findings challenge the prevailing wisdom. On the other end of the scale, however, being underweight in the 40-55 age bracket was associated with a higher risk, the researchers found. While admitting they were \u201csurprised\u201d by the potential protective effect of obesity, the team cautioned against jumping to conclusions. \u201cThe message that people shouldn\u2019t take away is that it\u2019s OK to be overweight or obese,\u201d study co-author Nawab Qizilbash of the OXON Epidemiology research company told AFP by telephone from Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who are obese in middle age run a lower risk of developing dementia later, said a large and long-term study Friday whose findings challenge the prevailing wisdom. On the other end of the scale, however, being underweight in the 40-55 age bracket was associated with a higher risk, the researchers found. While admitting they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}