Comments on: As Waistlines Widen, Brains Shrink

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:33:16 +0000

Finally! We have scientific proof for why Peter Griffin acts that way.

By: Dax

Dax — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:03:02 +0000

When I turned 51 I started gaining weight. (I never could before) Man did I feel stupid! I cut down on the amount of food I ate and within 3 months I had lost 19 pounds and was back to the weight I was at age 23. I feel a lot smarter now.

By: Strangely Moist

Strangely Moist — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:38:26 +0000

This study is absolute bollocks and anyone who believes any of the nonsense posited by it needs to smarten up.

Medical studies should consist of way more subjects than the number of people who attend the average wedding.

It’s like the study that “showed” gamers aren’t typical adolescents. When you read the study, it only interviewed people 19 and older.

Absolute crap, but the facts of it get lost in the story. “FAT PEOPLE WILL ROT THEIR BRAINS! HEHEHE! POINT AND LAUGH AT THE FAT PEOPLE” when there are a million other factors in play.

By: D Bozko

D Bozko — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:09:26 +0000

I guess this means I’m brain dead.

By: Charles Murray

Charles Murray — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:47:37 +0000

So studying cognitive differences between groups of people is ok now? I thought they had banned such things!

By: dashon

dashon — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:37:30 +0000

I wonder if this applies to younger people too because once I got fat in my late twenties (I’m 32 now), I became a total dumbass in the memory and decisions department. Not nearly as sharp as I used to be.

However, once I changed my diet and exercise, as I’ve started to loose weight, I’ve noticed my cognitive functions have improved.

Perhaps it’s all unrelated though.

By: Cola

Cola — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:33:39 +0000

Especially when it confirms their biases, Duane. Fat people = stupid, oafish.

It’s days like this I sarcastically remark on how great it is to be a human being in this enlightened day and age. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be asking these questions, of course, but the response to the most insignificant of data is always so extreme, and so extremely depressing. People are only skeptical when they don’t like the results.

By: Duane Hanson

Duane Hanson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:21:08 +0000

This study followed 94 people, a tiny, tiny sample size for all these news stories to be proclaiming the findings as significant in any way. At most this study indicates that further studies including greater numbers of people may be valuable.

It’s annoying how the press picks up any tiny study of this nature and goes around declaring it as solid fact. What foolishness.