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Big hips 'impair' women's memory, a study finds (BBC News Online, 14 July 2010)

14 Jul 2010


Research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has further characterised the effects of the different types of body fat, finding that fat carried around the hips is more detrimental to women's memory than that carried elsewhere. The study authors propose that this is due to greater production of oestrogen by belly fat than by hip fat.

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