cognitive impairments in infants of
gestational diabetic mothers; we
also find cerebral volume and IQ
deficits in childhood obesity and in
ADHD.
Numerous government interventions into the crises of obesity/
diabetes and heart disease over
the past half century have failed
to induce any significant behaviour
changes in the general population,
in spite of huge media interest and
coverage. Indeed the incidence of
dementia/diabetes and obesity is
rapidly growing.
characterized by hyperglycaemia
and hyperinsulinism, the twin toxic
hypers that inhibit glucose transfer into the brain, is not radically
different to the diobesic food and
carbohydrate charged matrix which
all of us modern urban humans
inhabit. The foetus of gestational
diabetes shows us that the devastating consequence of chronic
cerebral glucose deprivation is an
obese infant that is cognitively
impaired – a sequence that challenges the standard view of modern dementia – and that metabolic
conditions such as obesi