From a woman who genuinely cares about your health and your sex life, let’s have a sit down here.

I asked in a recent post ‘Can McDonald’s Make You Stupid?”

Now that was a below-the-belt swideswipe. I admit that I’m jumping up and down, trying to get your attention, even at the risk of annoying you.

Not only am I passionate about good sex, I’m passionate about good health. The two are not mutually exclusive, especially when sexy food carries so many great health benefits.

Even I didn’t know that today’s research news was marking towards your computer screen.

I thought the American Heart Association saying that we must get off our sugar addiction was big news. However will we get American women consuming only six teaspoons of sugar a day! Right guys, you get eight. Call it one can of soda and no more sugar anywhere.

Sugar is not the big news of the day.

Brain Scan Blues

Brain scans are the big news, and if these results don’t get us on a serious diet and in the gym (no matter what the damn cover of Time said two weeks ago about exercise), I don’t know what will get our attention.

A new brain-imaging study by researchers at UCLA and the University of Pittsburg finds that the brains of overweight and obese subjects were on average 4% and 8% smaller, respectively, than the brains of those who were at a healthy weight—evidence, according to UCLA neurology professor and study author Paul Thompson, of “severe brain degeneration.”

My headline “Can MacDonalds make you stupid” was unfortunately right on target. As a trendmeister, I’d rather be wrong on this one.

The news isn’t good for overweight people — those with a BMI over 25 — or for obese people, those with a BMI over 30.

If one is obese, the news is particularly bad. Not only does one’s brain shrink, but the damage occurs in the frontal temporal lobes, the seat of higher-order reasoning and judgement; the anterior cingulate gyrus, key to attention and decision-making as well; the hippocampus, where long-term memories are processed, and the basal ganglia, from which smooth movement is initiated.