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Obe­sity linked to Cog­ni­tion (Health­Canal):

- “Obese peo­ple tend to per­form worse than healthy peo­ple at cog­ni­tive tasks like plan­ning ahead, a lit­er­a­ture review has found, con­clud­ing that psy­cho­log­i­cal tech­niques used to treat anorex­ics could help obese peo­ple too.”

- “Accord­ing to a review of 38 stud­ies on cog­ni­tive func­tion and obe­sity by researchers from the Uni­ver­sity of NSW, obese peo­ple have a ten­dency toward “reduced exec­u­tive func­tion”, mean­ing plan­ning, goal-oriented behav­iour and decision-making.”

- “Obe­sity may both cause and be caused by the reduced exec­u­tive func­tion, said review lead author Dr Eve­lyn Smith, from UNSW’s School of Psychiatry.”

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