via /.
"[a href="vny!://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/15/nweight15.xml"]French scientists have linked obesity to lower IQ[/a] reports the Telegraph. In a new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults, people with a low body mass index (BMI) could recall 30% more words in a vocabulary test than those who were obese. The fatter subjects also showed a higher rate of cognitive decline when they were retested five years later. In the United States, [a href="vny!://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/23/34970246.pdf"]30% of the population is obese[/a] according to OECD. That's the highest rate of obesity anywhere. Do these high obesity rates affect the average IQ of the population?"
