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How Fat May Hurt the Brain, and How Exercise May Help

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Re: How Fat May Hurt the Brain, and How Exercise May Help

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Steve was not fat when he was young. ANd that's when he was at his best. But hey, I agree with your comment, it's a dubious claim at best. Is Linus obese by the way ?

> Is Linus obese by the way ? Are you referring to his ego?

> Are you referring to his ego?

There, sir, take my upvotes.

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You never know, Gabe, Linus and Steve might be EVEN SMARTER if they lost a few pounds. Who knows, Half Life 3 could even arrive sooner.

You're probably being facetious, but yeah it could all be relative and we don't really know. Wonder if there's any reason they haven't tried this experiment on humans.

>> "Wonder if there's any reason they haven't tried this experiment on humans."

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You never know, Gabe, Linus and Steve might be EVEN SMARTER if they lost a few pounds. Who knows, Half Life 3 could even arrive sooner.

You're probably being facetious, but yeah it could all be relative and we don't really know. Wonder if there's any reason they haven't tried this experiment on humans.

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Re: How Fat May Hurt the Brain, and How Exercise May Help

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I can think of very smart people who could be classified as overweight of obese, such as Gabe Newell, Linus Torvalds, or Steve Wozniak - so that makes me a bit suspicious. On this topic though, I do notice a significant drop in cognitive ability or "mental sharpness" from eating certain foods which have a higher GI. Have been experimenting with this lately, and I had wondered why after lunch time I wasn't able to foc…

The conclusion of this article is that you cannot draw conclusions from this article.

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I can think of very smart people who could be classified as overweight of obese, such as Gabe Newell, Linus Torvalds, or Steve Wozniak - so that makes me a bit suspicious. On this topic though, I do notice a significant drop in cognitive ability or "mental sharpness" from eating certain foods which have a higher GI. Have been experimenting with this lately, and I had wondered why after lunch time I wasn't able to foc…

If you believe the study, the implication would be that Gabe's mental abilities may be reduced by being overweight, not that he would necessary be dumb / not smart as a result (ie he'd be even smarter - or perhaps his cognitive abilities would simply be faster, or memory better etc - were he to reduce body fat).

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Original research: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24523551

Original NYT piece: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/how-fat-may-harm-th...

If someone from fastco is reading this: please provide more references and links to the article. It takes reading until the end of the article to realize that the original piece was from NYT. Contrast with http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe..., where the second paragraph links to the article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...

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