Fat and happy . . . and SMART!

A headline like Dieting hurts your brain could obviously cause those of us who may be -- from time to time -- "fitness challenged," shall we say, a little well-deserved anxiety. Vanity be damned: brains over beauty, I say. As it turns out though, the Australian study does NOT raise any issues with protien excess and metabolization, carbohydrate debt, brain tissue starvation, or other scientific causes.

Apparently dieters obsess about thoughts of food, body image, and so forth while on their self-imposed calorie reduction. This puts them off on their other mental duties such as remembering sequences of random numbers and doing simple math. Uh huh. Of course, the fact that when I'm not dieting (but aware that I'm in need) I might be obsessing about my body image and the straining seams on my clothing, as well as plagued with vanity-induced guilt, doesn't appear to be included in the benchmarking done in the study.

Cosmetic surgury. No obsessive thoughts to cloud mental processing; completely body shaping. Hmmmmm.

Posted by Grayson at December 1, 2003 08:06 AM