Gaining weight seems inevitable after your forties, but a few simple tips and lifestyle changes can keep the spread at bay, says Peta Bee
The Times,October 15 2019, 12:01am
You know youve reached middle age when weight loss becomes an uphill struggle. There are a multitude of factors stacked against us, not least a slowing metabolism and the shifts in hormones that typically contribute to wider hips in women and a paunch in men. Our activity levels typically begin a slow decline, and we naturally lose muscle mass so that the average middle-aged body is increasingly composed of fat.
Midlife weight gain occurs even if our lifestyle remains unchanged. A study from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Nature Medicine last month, found that our lipid turnover the rate at which we store and remove fat from our fat cells slows with age.
For its trial, the Swedish team
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