The Corpulence is Settled

(Image from nature.com)

The old science----fat is bad for the mind as well as the body:

A 2008 study of 6,000 people published in the Neurology journal found that people who have big bellies in their ’40s were much more likely to get Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in their ’70s.

The new science, based on a study of two million(!) people [bold added]:

being fat in middle age appears to cut the risk of developing dementia rather than increase it.

Clearly, more study is needed about the causes of dementia and fat's supposedly protective effect.

Meanwhile....I will have that second helping of pie.