Eat less, remember more? Not at all, but ... - Blog Post by:
Jeremy Olson - December 10, 2012 - 3:22 PM ... a new study
published by the Minneapolis-based American Academy of Neurology
found that African Americans generally had slower rates of
cognitive decline in their senior years if they had gone without
eating at points in their childhood or were slimmer than most
children when they were 12. The finding was surprising to
researchers, in part because child poverty and the deprivation
of food have all sorts of well-documented negative consequences
on children -- including higher rates of mental illnesses and
learning problems over time. Researchers at Rush University
Medical Center in Chicago interviewed more than 6,100 elderly
adults about their histories and then had them complete
cognitive tests every three years for a period of 16 years. The
tests showed more rapid cognitive declines among those who
hadn't suffered from hunger early in life. The association held
up -- albeit only for black people in the