Fat people are harder to cope with various tasks.
Scientists have confirmed the relationship between weight and intelligence. Fat people are often worse cope with the tasks on logic, reasoning, and planning.
In examining 38 studies on obesity and cognitive function, researchers from Australia came to the conclusion that between them there is a kind of vicious circle: poor skills in planning, reasoning and decision tasks are associated with a set of overweight, which, in turn, further exacerbates the intellectual problems through biological mechanisms. The connection between obesity and intelligence remained when accounting for other risk factors, such as health problems or social status, and manifested to the same extent in children, adolescents and adults.
According to the researchers, obesity is not only a problem of lifestyle, but the problem with the brain. However, this does not mean that all fat people are stupid, although as a group they have more problems and cognitive organizing functions of the brain than their peers with normal weight.
“Organizing function in overweight people suffers the most noticeably. This applies to a number of processes such as planning, achieving complex goals, motivations, etc., which can influence eating behavior,” say the researchers, convinced of the need to carry out additional work to study the biological background of the relationship between cognitive function and overweight.
