Lose Weight and Live Longer: How Your Fat Is Killing You
Plan on living a long healthy life full of travel, relaxation and grandkids? Maybe not if you’re overweight or obese. Gaining weight in your middle age lowers your chances of growing old gracefully and in good health by 80%!
As a women’s health practitioner, I hear about weight gain all the time. It tends to creep on after the kids, then again as you hit peri-menopause and finally again when you get into full-blown menopause. Unfortunately, this excess baggage around your middle, your rear, and your thighs are slowly killing you.
Research shows that for every one point above a normal body mass index (BMI) of 25, you have a 12% lower chance of getting to 70 years old in good health. This means a 5’7” woman who weighs 175 pounds has a BMI of 28 which equates to a 36% less chance of reaching 70 in good health.
Or for my height challenged friends, a 5’2” woman weight 155 pounds also has a BMI of 28, which means she will also have a 36% less chance of reaching 70 in good health.
By good health, studies mean free of chronic disease and able to perform normal activities of daily living such as cooking, cleaning, getting dressed, walking up stairs…etc.
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Kind of trite advice. Eat right, exercise more.
You touched on hormonal balance and its impact on weight and ability to lose it but then ... zip!