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Adiposity and Risk for Metabolic Syndrome 
as It Relates to Cognitive Health
A related and emerging literature that has recently been popularized 
investigates the relationship of adiposity to cognitive and brain health 
and academic performance. Several reports (Datar et al., 2004; Datar and 
Sturm, 2006; Judge and Jahns, 2007; Gable et al., 2012) on this relationship 
are based on large-scale datasets derived from the Early Child Longitudinal 
Study. Further, nonhuman animal research has been used to elucidate the 
relationships between health indices and cognitive and brain health (see 

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