Read the article "Fat Weighs Heavy on the Brain" article at Science News for Kids. When you have finished, find some element of the article that you felt was interesting and comment on it, i.e. "I like this passage and here is why."
Also, is there more than one perspective on this issue? If so, explain what another perspective might be that was not discussed in the article.
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DeleteSo when they say the white fatty substance was damaged did they mean there was cuts or rips in the substance? And why is it damaged in obese people.
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If the magnetic waves passed through their brain how would it make a picture on a piece of plastic? Why didn't their body fix the substance? Most damage can be fixed by our stem cells
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I thought this article was really cool. It makes me feel sorry for obese people, and it also makes me want to go further into the study of obesity. One thing I couldn't understand was how the white fatty substance was damaged? 20
ReplyDeleteThis was a great article because it gave great tsunami of details. These people need to think about this article and say "Is this how my life is going to go". Also it really does help if you lose weight. When I saw this article, it made me think of mens sana in corpore sano. (4)
ReplyDeleteThis is a very informal article and is organized. "Mens sana in corpore sano" is very important for memory and good grades in school. I never Knew that obesity will cause memory loss and it's horrible that you could have such bad diseases! #27
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that the obese people that didn't lose weight did worse on the second round. Did they gain weight? I think that some obese people would think, "Uh, I think that being obese is not bad for your brain and they are just trying to insult us."
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The most important part in this article was when Gunstad and his colleagues did a test for obese people and fit people to see what different scores they would get. The overweight people got lower scores than the more fit group of people and 1 in four obese people got such low scores in the memory test that they could have been considered handicapped or disabled. I found that interesting because the overweight people who tested low and lost weight did better in the second test because when you are obese the white outer layer of fat that protects your brain gets damaged. 9
ReplyDeletemy very interesting facts to me was there are 72million people that are obese and researchers have clearly shown that more fat can actually infect a lot of your brain in fact some were so infected that they were classified as disabled people. how did they find this out they found 150 obese volunteers that had to do a test and compared it to the healthy people and the obese people did much worse then they did this again to the same volunteers some lost weight and got better score than the people that still were very unhealthy (obese means that your BMI is over 30 is a sign that your are now obese. Gunstad a researcher says "if this pattern continues it will put many people at risk of brain damage and problems at school and work" he recommends that kids should ask adults good ways to keep healthy.
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DeleteI thought this article was very meaning full because it count that you are healthy on the outside and if you are not it will affect you brain too. I thought this article was great connection to Mens sana in corpore sano because a healthy body is also a healthy brain. I have learned that if you have a lot of body fat it will affect you brain because you have white fatty substance surrounding you brain and if you have a lot of body fat that it will brack down that white substance hurting your brain.
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Your brain is a special part in your body and this article decided that you should watch your weight or your brain will suffer. The main thing about this article is don't be fat. Or you will suffer the consiquences Mua ha ha ha. $4
ReplyDeleteThe part where it says, " patients who had lost weight scored higher on memory tests. " tells a lot. It's basically saying that less fat people are more capable of doing more things. The obese people don't have a lot of memory because of the fat. 5
ReplyDeletethe other thing that really helps is that the people who actually were fat some lost wait and there brain signals got through easier so they could do better on the test #26
DeleteThe condition also boosts a person’s risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Now research indicates that obesity also leads to problems with memory, thinking and reasoning. The good news, an international team of scientists reports, is that the damage may be undone through weight loss. Something I though was interesting was how being obese effects your brain. I think this article is a good article because it shows that being obese can effect your daily life and its not good or healthy for your body or mind. some good facts about this article are Inside the brain, obesity may damage nerve channels. In the bigger picture, obesity impairs thinking, memory and reasoning. In the biggest picture of all, inside and out, obesity is bad news for a person’s mind and matter.Gunstad and his colleagues asked the 150 obese people to take cognitive tests. The scientists then compared the test results with those from healthy people. The researchers found that, in general, the obese study participants’ scores were lower than those of healthy people. On some tests, including memory tests, nearly 1 in 4 scored low enough to be considered learning disabled, or handicapped.
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ReplyDeleteI liked this article and found out many new things about how being overweight could mean something dangerous, or death. I found it interesting that how that the people who were overweight were not as smart as people who were fit. I didn't know about the surgery about losing weight, and how it effected the people who did it. They did better on a test they did before they had the surgery. It could different causes why they did better, but it seems if that being overweight is the case. Now I know people who are smart, but are overweight. So what does that mean for the study? If you are smart, but are overweight, then what? The person I am talking about I will not name, and I look at how good he is at certain subjects, and he is better than certain people at certain subjects than people who are fit. The only thing that I can think of that solves that is the study is wrong, or that the other people aren't as smart as him. I also didn't know about the BMI scale. I found it interesting that if your BMI is 30 or above than you are considered obese. I also find it interesting that more and more people are becoming overweight. That could become a problem in society. Like people who work in gardens suddenly become overweight, they could get their job taken away, or not be able to do their job. I also think that ties into why so many people don't have jobs. I could be wrong, but that is my prediction. Those were my feelings on the article.
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I think this article is interesting because the percentage of obese people is rising, but I never knew it would affect you memory and knowledge. One thing I don't understand is that why is the outer coating of the nerves damaged in obese people and not in anyone else? I think obese people would feel offended by the article but they should know why they are getting low grades on tests, and that they should start exercising more. -25
ReplyDeleteI like this article because it talked about how a healthy body can affect your mind. I didn’t know that if you are obese it would affect your memory and they proved that by tests the first one the participants had took found out that the obese participants scores were lower than the ones from the healthy people. Then 109 participants agreed to do a surgery that would help lose some weight and then took the test and improved so that proves that being obese does affect your memory.
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Now I know that if you are too obese it can damage your brain. My grandpa is obese and his brain doesn't word that well. At my old school their was a really fat person, and he wouldn't get good grades, I kept wondering why that happened because he always payed attention and he would never talk during class but now I know why that happened because Gunstad figured out that if you are obese it can affect your brain.#24
ReplyDeleteI think this does tie in with mensana ion corpre sana because in one sentence it actually says "A healthy body leads to a healthy brain". I never knew that the fat can actually damage or stop some parts of the brain I just knew it was bad for you.The good fat the white fatty fat fat is also getting damaged by the bad fatty fat fat is basically messing with the connection basically a cut cord both your brain and memories still work but a cut connection is stopping that from reaching the memories.23
ReplyDeleteI think this passage was useful because it supplies lots of information and taught me lots of new things like your nerves have a white fatty substance and I also didn't know that being obese would have an affect on your education.
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This was an interesting article explain Mens Sana in Corpore Sano. I wonder why 72 million Americas are obese. And I thought that it was weight that bothered people not that they get brain damage and you have a bigger chance of getting cancer. I also have a few questions: what dose the white fat do for you? how do people calculate BMI and dose your height affect your BMI? And last question, What exactly happens to your brain when you are obese that makes you the ability to remember things.
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ReplyDeleteIt is never good to be overweight. It causes heart problems, diabetes, and cancer. Overweight people with heart disease or high blood pressure scored lower on memory, thinking and reasoning tests, than the people who weren’t as obese. I wrote an article a little while ago about mens Sana in incorpore Sano which means healthy mind in a healthy body, if you don’t eat right and exercise then you will be obese. Something else that I wrote in my mens Sana incorpore sano is if you learn new things and keep your mind growing it stays healthier. A lot more people have confidence if you thin and healthy then when you were big and obese. -11
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ReplyDeleteI liked this passage because it really described why its bad to be obesity. My Uncle was over weight and was close to being obese and when he weighed a lot his memory wasn't very good. Later this year he started to lose a lot of weight and has started remember things that before he couldn't remember. This article is good for people that are obese because it describes what happens to your brain when your over weight. It says that when your obese it damages a white fatty tissue that surrounds the brain and protects bundles of nerves. What's starting to be bad is that there are 72,000,000 people through out the world that are becoming obese. Some people might not know it now but its life threatening for people to not be healthy. Remember "MENS SANA IN CORPRE SANA".
I found this specific article interesting because I have learned many things that I didn't even know could happen. For example, I didn't know that if you are obese, the important parts of our brain. I also thought that it was interesting because I never knew that there was a white fatty substance that protects and surrounds the bundles, and that they are damaging the protective outer coating.#22
ReplyDeleteI liked this article because it gives a lot of detail and explanation to how the brain can be damage. It also explained that if the white fatty protective coat around the brain can be damage if you are obese and that can damage your memory. They proved that it can affect your memory by having obese people take a memory test and compared the test results with healthy people’s results and the test results proved that obese people’s memory can be considered learning disabled or handicapped. People that are obese should exercise and eat healthier so they won’t have higher risk of getting diabetes, cancer or heart problems.
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I think the most interesting part of the article is when the obese people took a test and the score was lower than the healthy people. But when some of them came back losing about 50 pounds, and their score for the second test was higher than the first test. The people who didn't lose any weight's score was worse than their first score. 28
ReplyDeletethis article was a good article because it has many facts on how being obese damages your brain, like how it affects your nerve channels. being healthy is really important, this article reminds me of when we did our mens sana in corpore sano. Obestity can effect your brain and body and its really important to stay healthy, and take care of your body. 30
ReplyDeleteI think this part of the article is important when they wanted to know if gaining wait damaged the brain ex: getting lower grades on test, not focusing, and loss of memory. So they got 150 obese participants and they gave the obese people a test and compared the results to the healthy people’s results. On a memory test one out of four obese people one scored low enough to think that that one participant was disabled or handicapped. After the internal test was over one hundred-nine obese people did surgery what makes you lose weight and each participant loss fifty pounds each. Gunstand had the one hundred-nine participants take the memory test and they scored a higher grade then they did for the first test. I think that that was a good idea to have them take a memory test and then have them do surgery to lose weight and then have them take the test again and see how they do, I think this test was important because it tells you how important it is to keep your body healthy and what it can do to you if you don’t.
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This article was really good. I feel like I should learn more about this. If people keep on eating unhealthy it will spread and people will keep on spreading and people will won't be learning as much or be remembering what they have learned.
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ReplyDeleteThe thing I wonder is if the 109 did do better what happened to the 41. If you look at it from one of are perspectives it doesn't look like a big deal. But using the facts and the details and thoughts from other people who connect with this story you can make a person feel bad. But the thing is if the 41 did do worse the second time why wouldn't they try to keep helping them. ($4)
There are three elements to this article that helped me understand the link between weight and poor health including cognitive abilities.
ReplyDeleteFirst, there were experiments that clearly demonstrated that people who are considered obese by their BMI did worse than those who are not considered obese on memory and thinking tests.
Second, when 104 of those who had been obese lost 50 pounds a piece, on average, they retook those cognitive tests and performed better.
Finally, MRI data showed a clear physical link that underpinned what the researchers were seeing in cognitive tests: brain damage, specifically the white fatty tissue surrounding nerve tissue.
These three factors establish a strong case that one's weight physically damages parts of the brain which in turn impairs a person's thinking abilities. Thankfully, the research also shows that the effects of this condition may be reversible.
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