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.
