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Monash University: The “Real” 7-Up – the 30-Year Study Linking Childhood Obesity and Fitness to Midlife Cognition

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The world’s first study of the impact of childhood fitness and obesity on cognition in middle age, followed over 1200 people who were children in 1985 for over 30 years, has found that better performance on physical tests is related to better cognition later in life and may protect against dementia in later years. Importantly […]