Repeat after me until the Daily Mail can hear you:
Correlation
Does
Not
Equal
Causation
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To be fair to the journalist, the scientists from the study are saying some Very Not Good Things This is...not really truepic.twitter.com/qNVMQ4TN7Q
Childhood obesity and depression are both linked to changes in the brain BUT They are also vastly MORE CLOSELY linked to environmental factors
It seems unlikely, for example, that the people in the poorer dark blue areas have different brain chemistry to the rich people with less overweight children in the lighter areaspic.twitter.com/Q15OrEnBV0
Obesity is linked to hundreds of things. Do brain changes possibly help cause children to become obese? Maybe Are there MUCH bigger issues that we already know about? One. Hundred. Percent
Is it EXTREMELY LIKELY that actually obesity and depression cause changes to the brain and that's what this study picked up? Let's just say that that doesn't make a very good headline
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