A recent study found that trying to lose weight when a person is middle-aged (between 40 and 60 years old) can have negative effects on their brains. Alzheimer’s disease risk increases with weight loss in middle age, according to US researchers from Boston University School of Medicine. Researchers from the US and China examined information from the Framingham Heart Study, which tracked Massachusetts residents for four decades. Every two to four years, the research team took weight measurements from these subjects and compared changes in weight with dementia incidence rates. According to research, older people who are overweight are more … Continue reading Middle-aged people who try to lose weight run the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease