Experts have long known that obesity in middle-age is a leading risk factor for developing dementia as you get older. But intriguingly, carrying a lot of excess weight in later life, when you're over 65, has been shown to have a protective effect against mind-wasting brain diseases.The two contradictory facts represent what researchers have called the 'obesity paradox' - which challenges the conventional wisdom that being obese is always detrimental to one’s health.
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