report from john hafiz in just a moment. this next story really has me worried for the future of this country and on that note for the future of the entire world is he a study out of the university of chicago as asking the question does being fat make you dumb now well they didn't actually raise the results of the study exactly that way i think you get the point they found the older women who are hoping to keep their minds should keep their minds young excuse me should keep an eye on the scale researchers have found a link between slowing down mentally and piling on pounds so for every extra points gained on a scale of obesity scores in reasoning memory and other mental skills dropped and the study looked at the memory abstract reasoning and. writing for a group of women age sixty five to seventy nine so of the nearly nine thousand women who completed the test for each point increase in the body mass index scale scores on the mental test went down by a point and that's what scares me have you walked on an american street rec