Keep fit and trim in midlife to age well – how diet that avoids weight gain pays dividends
Research from Europe and the US highlights how diet and lifestyle choices in our forties and fifties affect our risk of illness as we age
Curbing or preventing middle-aged spread – the tendency to gain weight in midlife – could be key to avoiding serious medical problems in later life, doctors say.
The type and quality of carbohydrates a person consumes in their forties and fifties is likely to be a determining factor in how healthily they age, research shows.
“Sustained weight loss from overweight to healthy weight in midlife was associated with decreased risk of chronic diseases,” according to a team of doctors and scientists at the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku in Finland, and University College London in the United Kingdom.
