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Your Waist Size NOW, Predicts Brain-Wasting Later: Here’s Why

Posted on 14. Apr, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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The power to predict disease is – well – powerful. And nothing is more powerful in scientific circles than a carefully constructed, decades long, longitudinal study.
In case you haven’t noticed, approximately fifty percent of adult Americans have abdominal obesity. “Abdominal” or “visceral” obesity is defined as a waist circumference greater than 102 [...]

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