Being fat isn't always bad

Everywhere you turn, there is some news article about the dangers of being fat. Now, it looks like being overweight can have a positive affect on preventing senile dementia and suicide. Think we'll see that in the mainstream media anytime soon? Or is yet another obesity making health care more costly for everyone article more likely?

I know that one person's observations aren't scientific proof. They're merely anecdotal. I've spent a lot of time in nursing homes and assisted living centers over the years, though. In the assisted living home where my father stayed after we could no longer provide adequate care at home, I don't think I ever saw a fat patient. I could say the same thing about the dementia wings at the nursing homes of my grandfather and grandmother-in-law. Oh, I'd see fat stroke patients, including my grandfather, fat cardiac care patients, fat people confined to wheelchairs, but they had their minds still.

Junkfood Science is simply the best informative blog I've read in ages. The author can make scientific studies understandable without dumbing them down to the point that accuracy is lost.

fat, senile dementia, suicide