Interesting Tidbit (#1)

Sometimes I come across interesting things I'd like to share, but about which I do not want to write a whole big spiel. So I'm going to start a segment called Interesting Tidbits, in which I note down without much discussion some of the things that capture my attention. Here's the first:

Another reason to avoid becoming obese--There's a link between diabetes and alzheimer's disease.

Fascinating!

Related: By 2050, when the brown reculse spider will be living in the Northeast, laying in wait to bite me, 1 in 85 people worldwide could have alzheimer's (according to this study).