Childhood Obesity, Mental Health, And A Looming Crisis In The Making
As if the physical health implications weren't already bad enough...
It’s now less than a week before Trump’s swearing in, and America’s pivot from Biden priorities to Trumpian ones… and it can’t come fast enough. Here’s yet another reason:
One of the more unlikely partnerships in the Trump re-election bid was bringing in not one, but two candiates that ran for President for the blue team: Tulsi Gabbard and then an honest-to-goodness Camelot Kennedy.
Kennedy’s issue of greatest concern is the ‘MAHA’ agenda, making America Healthy again. As if on cue, we’ve got a study making the case for why that is an important priority: links between childhood obesity and dementia.
A University of Oxford study observed 862 children whose weight was measured from the age of seven and whose weekly physical activity levels were tracked from 11.
Their brains were scanned around the age of 20 and analysed for changes linked to dementia.
People with a higher BMI at the age of seven and who gained weight most rapidly until 17 had differences in the structure of their ‘default mode network’, which is linked to dementia in older age.
Less active children with a higher BMI tended to have differences in their entorhinal cortex, which evidence shows also plays a role in dementia.
The results suggest children’s brains may develop differently if they do not exercise enough and are overweight. This could set the stage for them to be more at risk of dementia when they are older, although more research is needed to know if this is the case. — DailyMail
For those of us who have noticed how difficult it’s becoming to motivate kids to put down their tech long enough to go play outside, this is not a small issue.
Since physical fitness and the confidence and independence that go with it have a reputation of ‘red-pilling’ people who take positive steps in that direction, we won’t expect the ‘body positive’ voices on the left to bring attention to this risk factor. But there’s another fact we could throw out there that might help them take an interest in the issue. You can catch their attention by employing their own language.
Here’s how that might look:
This screenshot is from an AI summary of the issue in a websearch, but it’s helpful in that it condenses a few critical ideas that even our *ahem* friends on the left might find compelling enough to make them care.
Spinkle in some liberal use of the phrase ‘disproportionately affects’ this-or-that demographic and alarms might go off that their favorite demographic groups could be at the highest risks of suffering dementia.
If they champion it as a priority, suddenly we’re all pulling in the same direction. Of course, if they focus on symptoms instead of a cause, they could fall into their usual trap of demanding ‘solutions’ that aren’t really solutions. Initiatives that, say offer a weigh-loss jab to tubby kids from those demographics instead of addressing the root causes issues RFJ Jr has been insisting we look into.
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