Scientists found a link between body weight and mental ability

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Ученые выявили связь между массой тела и умственными способностями A new study has confirmed the well-known hypothesis.

Recently, the American experts said that people with obesity are less intelligent than people with weight in the normal range.

To come to such conclusions scientists helped study in which overweight people were tested the number of gray and white matter in the brain.

The work has shown that in volunteers with overweight of these substances was significantly less than that of the survey participants whose weight was normal. Proof of this is the fact that obese people are more impulsive and unstable.

The experiment involved 32 people, 16 women and 16 men. The researchers measured the ratio of body mass and percentage of body fat of volunteers.

It was found that those people who suffered from excess weight, had a smaller number of gray and white matter in those areas of the brain, which are responsible for the persistence, motivation and willpower.

This lack, according to scientists, subsequently affects self-control in the observance of diets or in case of refusal from junk food.

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