Evidence has shown that obesity adversely affects the central nervous system and especially cognitive function, including attention, executive function, decision making, and verbal learning.

Chronic inflammation is thought to be one of the pathways in which obesity impacts brain health and cognitive functions.

Your weight has a direct impact on how your brain functions. Your brain is a complex organ, diet-induced obesity caused by the prolonged, excessive consumption of processed, unhealthy foods. It is important to make that distinction because obesity is complex.

Research shows that obesity has a detrimental effect on working memory, which impacts your ability to make decisions about the food you eat.

Changes in brain structure caused by obesity can speed up the brain aging process by as much as 10 years.

In 2021, a study linking obesity to Alzheimer’s disease, along with a recent report in Neurology, found that obesity in middle age contributed to the onset of dementia (Parkinson’s too) years later. It included obesity as one of 12 modifiable dementia risk factors in its latest dementia report.

All of this suggests that is choices right now can make a profound difference in how you age.

She acts like everything is ultra fantastic or bordering suicidal over dramatizing/exaggerating ever little thing. She is so stubborn and ignorant of what she is doing to her body right now.

Her body is starting to break down. It can only take so much. I’m not suggesting any of this is an excuse or even the reason behind her thinking. But it’s also something to consider. Especially based on her behavior.